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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.»
«There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.»
«Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.»
«If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: alacrity, invade
«Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Pride | Keywords: advantages, delicate
«The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Excellence | Keywords: professes
«A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.»
«Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Ignorance | Keywords: charged, refused, voluntary
«I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Marriage | Keywords: eminently
«To be driven by external motives from the path which our heart approves, to give way to any thing but conviction, to suffer the opinion of others to rule our choice or overpower our resolves, is to submit tamely to the lowest and most ignominious sla»