"Is not a patron one who looks with……" — Samuel Johnson
"Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the…
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water,…
— Samuel Johnson
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Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the…
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He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance…
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Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our…
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Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my…
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