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Samuel Johnson
An injustice anywhere...
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.
Source:
-- Samuel Johnson,...
But if he...
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses...
All theory is...
All theory is against freedom of the will, all experience for it.
Source: Boswell's...
Christianity is the...
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Source: Letter, 13 Aug. 1766...
Attack is the...
Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.
Source:...
And then, Sir,...
And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, Nature will rise up, and claiming her...
But these were...
But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
Source:...
Any of us...
Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef.
Source: Quoted in: James...
Composition is, for...
Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged...
Attention and respect...
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late,...
As the Spanish...
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies...
Cruel with guilt,...
Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair,
The midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar;
Invades the sacred...
As I know...
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...
Consider, Sir, how...
Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime,...
Avarice is always...
Avarice is always poor.
Source:
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English...
BOSWELL. I do...
BOSWELL. I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . .
JOHNSON. That, Sir, I find, is what a very...
Curiosity is, in...
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Source:...
As peace is...
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
DULL. 8....
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work.
Source:
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18...
Avarice is generally...
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the...