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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego»
«A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: dejected
«No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fondness
«The folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped is one of the general weaknesses which, in spite of the instruction of moralists, and the remonstrance of reason, prevail to a greater or less degree in every mind»
«How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure»
«The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed»
«Exercise!! I never heard that he used any: he might, for aught I know, walk to the alehouse; but I believe he was always carried home again»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: alehouse, walk-to
«Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Life
«The great source of pleasure is variety»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Pleasure
«Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Vision