Samuel Johnson Quotes


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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Integrity Quotes
"In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w"
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Grief Quotes
"Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"Virtue is too often merely local."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Virtue Quotes
"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Value Quotes
"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Understanding Quotes
"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth"
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd"
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"He that travels in theory has no inconveniences; he has shade and sunshine at his disposal, and wherever he alights finds tables of plenty and looks of gaiety. These ideas are indulged till the day of departure arrives, the chaise is called, and the progress of happiness begins. A few miles teach him the fallacies of imagination. The road is dusty, the air is sultry, the horses are sluggish. He longs for the time of dinner that he may eat and rest. The inn is crowded, his orders are neglected, and nothing remains but that he devour in haste what the cook has spoiled, and drive on in quest of better entertainment. He finds at night a more commodious house, but the best is always worse than he expected."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge."
Author: Johnson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes

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