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Samuel Johnson
That observation which...
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than...
The happiest part...
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
There is nothing...
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or...
There mark what...
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the...
The highest panegyric,...
The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of...
The blaze of...
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as...
The mind is...
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary,...
There is, indeed,...
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable...
They are forced...
They are forced plants, raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumbers after...
The liberty of...
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find...
The chief art...
The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the...
The only sensual...
The only sensual pleasure without vice.
Source: Referring to music. Johnsonian...
There may be...
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to...
They that have...
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their...
The reciprocal civility...
The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
The greatest part...
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to...
The return of...
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity...
This world where...
This world where much is to be done and little to be known.
Source: Prayers &...
This mournful truth...
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
The usual fortune...
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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