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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: fit to, on land
«The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.»
«The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: panegyric
«A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.»
«One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: miseries
«Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: breeze, throws
«It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: hunting, paucity
«Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.»
«No man was ever great by imitation.»
«No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.»