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Samuel Johnson
ELPHINSTON. What, have...
ELPHINSTON. What, have you not read it through? . . .
JOHNSON. No, Sir, do you read books...
He who has...
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Few enterprises of...
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we...
Friendship is not...
Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
Source: Lives of English Poets -...
Every man who...
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I...
Fly fishing may...
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,...
Here falling houses...
Here falling houses thunder on your head,
And here a female atheist talks you dead.
He is no...
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
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Get together a...
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a...
Every other author...
Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative...
He is the...
He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature.
Source:...
Hope is necessary...
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be...
He was dull...
He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
Source:...
He that fails...
He that fails in his endeavours after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or...
Every other enjoyment...
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the...
He that hopes...
He that hopes hereafter to look back with satisfaction upon past years, must learn to know the present value of single...
Hope itself is...
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world...
He who waits...
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Source:...
He that outlives...
He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and...
Fine clothes are...
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.