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Samuel Johnson
In my early...
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as...
Knowledge of the...
Knowledge of the subject is to the poet what durable materials are to the architect.
LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer...
LEXICOGRAPHER: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing...
It is better...
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to...
I refute it...
I refute it thus.
Source: Replying to Boswell's contention that they were unable to...
Integrity without knowledge...
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and...
Let me smile...
Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Language is the...
Language is the dress of thought.
Source: Lives of the English Poets - Cowley
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It is wonderful...
It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in...
I will be...
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life...
It generally happens...
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Source: In...
Life must be...
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his...
Many things difficult...
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Source:
-- Samuel...
Keeping accounts, Sir,...
Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. ...
I would be...
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an...
It is better...
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Love is the...
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Source: Quoted in:...
Milton, Madam, was...
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon...
Life cannot subsist...
Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Source:
-- Samuel...
Is not a...
Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has...