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Quotations by author » Samuel Johnson English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784
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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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Ambition; Happiness

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself

To build is to be robbed

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

To do nothing is in every man's power

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough

To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Art; Life; Opportunity

To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

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