Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Nothing Will Ever Be Attempted If All Possible Objections Must Be First Overcome.

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Silence Propagates Itself, And The Longer Talk Has Been Suspended, The More Difficult It Is To Find Anything To Say.

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Mankind Have A Great Aversion To Intellectual Labor; But Even Supposing Knowledge To Be Easily Attainable, More People Would Be Content To Be Ignorant Than Would Take Even A Little Trouble To Acquire It.

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There Is No Observation More Frequently Made By Such As Employ Themselves In Surveying The Conduct Of Mankind, Than That Marriage, Though The Dictate Of Nature, And The Institution Of Providence, Is Yet Very Often The Cause Of Misery, And That Those Who Enter Into That State Can Seldom Forbear To Express Their Repentance, And Their Envy Of Those Whom Either Chance Or Caution Hath Withheld From It.

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If A Man Does Not Make New Acquaintances As He Advances Through Life, He Will Soon Find Himself Alone. A Man Should Keep His Friendships In Constant Repair.

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The Chains Of Habit Are Too Weak To Be Felt Until They Are Too Strong To Be Broken.

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There Are, In Every Age, New Errors To Be Rectified And New Prejudices To Be Opposed.

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When Once A Man Has Made Celebrity Necessary To His Happiness, He Has Put It In The Power Of The Weakest And Most Timorous Malignity, If Not To Take Away His Satisfaction, At Least To Withhold It. His Enemies May Indulge Their Pride By Airy Negligence And Gratify Their Malice By Quiet Neutrality.

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Of All Noises, I Think Music Is The Least Disagreeable.

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As I Know More Of Mankind I Expect Less Of Them, And Am Ready Now To Call A Man A Good Man Upon Easier Terms Than I Was Formerly.

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Few Things Are Impossible To Diligence And Skill. Great Works Are Performed Not By Strength, But Perseverance.

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Patriotism Is The Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel.

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Praise, Like Gold And Diamonds, Owes Its Value Only To Its Scarcity.

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Integrity Without Knowledge Is Weak And Useless, And Knowledge Without Integrity Is Dangerous And Dreadful.

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Do Not Accustom Yourself To Use Big Words For Little Matters.

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Hope Is Necessary In Every Condition.

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Self-Confidence Is The First Requisite To Great Undertakings.

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Your Manuscript Is Both Good And Original, But The Part That Is Good Is Not Original And The Part That Is Original Is Not Good.

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Such Is The Common Process Of Marriage. A Youth And Maiden Exchange Meeting By Chance, Or Brought Together By Artifice, Exchange Glances, Reciprocate Civilities, Go Home, And Dream Of One Another. Having Little To Divert Attention, Or Diversify Thought, They Find Themselves Uneasy When They Are Apart, And Therefore Conclude That They Shall Be Happy Together. They Marry, And Discover What Nothing But Voluntary Blindness Had Before Concealed; They Wear Out Life In Altercations, And Charge Nature With Cruelty.

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While Grief Is Fresh, Every Attempt To Divert Only Irritates. You Must Wait Till It Be Digested, And Then Amusement Will Dissipate The Remains Of It.

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Read Over Your Compositions, And Wherever You Meet With A Passage Which You Think Is Particularly Fine, Strike It Out.

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It Is Very Strange, And Very Melancholy, That The Paucity Of Human Pleasures Should Persuade Us Ever To Call Hunting One Of Them.

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Adversity Is The State In Which Man Most Easily Becomes Acquainted With Himself, Being Especially Free Of Admirers Then.

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Classical Quotation Is The Parole Of Literary Men All Over The World.

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It Is Better To Suffer Wrong Than To Do It, And Happier To Be Sometimes Cheated Than Not To Trust.

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A Fishing Rod Is A Stick With A Hook At One End And A Fool At The Other.

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Knowledge Is Of Two Kinds. We Know A Subject Ourselves, Or We Know Where We Can Find Information On It.

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