Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

Samuel Johnson
All denominations of Christians have really little difference in point of doctrine, though they may differ widely in external forms.

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The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.

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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

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Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

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Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

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Of music Dr Johnson used to say that it was the only sensual pleasure without vice.

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From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

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London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden 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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The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

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CLUB — An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.

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A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficiency.

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Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

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The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

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