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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Cheating
| Keywords:
debauch, debauched, debauching, genteelly
«Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
alter, care for, child care, greatly, lad, old man, rattle, rattled, tastes, The old man, The Young Man, whore, young man
«He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.'»
«Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Abstinence
| Keywords:
abstinence, temperance
«The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds; nor has any part of the world y»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
excursion, fortuitous, hostility, projector, projectors, promiser, vagrant, vagrants
«We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty»
«Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement: but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
angling, fishing, fish stick, float, fly fishing
«Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
composition, elevation, miscarriage, miscarriages, operates, procures, prudence
«There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Community
| Keywords:
eagerness, immediate, impatience, nearest