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“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
— Samuel Johnson
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
— Samuel Johnson
“You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
— Samuel Johnson
“A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.”
— Samuel Johnson
“We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.”
— Samuel Johnson
“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.”
— Samuel Johnson
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.”
— Samuel Johnson
“There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.”
— Samuel Johnson
“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”
— Samuel Johnson
“No man was ever great by imitation.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Exercise is labor without weariness.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Language is the dress of thought.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.”
— Samuel Johnson
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
— Samuel Johnson
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
— Samuel Johnson
“There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
— Samuel Johnson
“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.”
— Samuel Johnson
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