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Quotations by author » Samuel Johnson
English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
Poverty
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
Poverty
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure; but it was not a dinner to ask a man to
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This will naturally move the students from the street to the center of the campus,
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This world where much is to be done and little to be known.
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence
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Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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Those that have loved longest love best.
Love
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
ConquestFreedomHabitHappinessWisdom
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
DedicationExcellencePerseverance
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt
Pain
Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur
Fame
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
DoubtJuries and JudgesPast
Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry
Expectation
Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
FameTime
Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful
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To a poet nothing can be useless
Poetry
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