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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Men become friends by a community of pleasures»
«He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces»
«In the most general applause discordant voices will always be heard»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: discordant
«Every art has its terms, and every kind of instruction its proper style; the gravity of common critics may be tedious, but is less despicable than childish merriment»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: childish
«It is commonly a weak man who marries for love»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: marries
«Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int»
«To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any hono»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: comparison
«I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Wishes | Keywords: irregular, unreasonable
«Such is the pleasure of projecting that many content themselves with a succession of visionary schemes, and wear out their allotted time in the calm amusement of contriving what they never attempt or hope to execute»
«It deserves to be considered, whether the want of that which can never be gained, may not easily be endured»