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Samuel Johnson
We are to...
We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always...
There is no...
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Source: Letter, 12 April 1781,...
When I was...
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at...
Where secrecy or...
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
Source:
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Treating your adversary...
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not...
We love to...
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Source: Rambler,...
To do nothing...
To do nothing is in every man's power.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
When speculation has...
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
Source: The...
While grief is...
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement...
We are inclined...
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
When men come...
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Source: Quoted...
We are perpetually...
We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is...
Where there is...
Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor.
Source: The Rambler
-- Samuel...
Wickedness is always...
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes a short cut to everything.
What provokes your...
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the...
When two Englishmen...
When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
Source: The...
We would all...
We would all be idle if we could.
Source: Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol....
Why Sir, it...
Why Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it...
You are much...
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labour,...
When once a...
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most...