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

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

To me - the choice of life is become less important; I hope hereafter to think only on the choice of eternity

To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, and touched none that he did not adorn.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed

To proceed from one truth to another, and connect distant propositions by regular consequences, is the great prerogative of man

To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once e

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Difficulty; Mankind

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

To the strongest and quickest mind, it is far easier to learn than to invent.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may em

To us, who are regaled every morning and evening with intelligence, and are supplied from day to day with materials for conversation, it is difficult to conceive how man can consist without a newspaper, or to what entertainment companies can assemble

To want the impossible is self-defeating and can end only in frustration. To wish for an unattainable goal, however, may mean achieving ones that one might not otherwise.

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and

Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties

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