Samuel Johnson Quotes
262 Samuel Johnson quotes:
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
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Achievement Quotes
"At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest."
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Birthday Quotes
"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy."
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Belief Quotes
"Claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy"
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Boys Quotes
"Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him."
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Biography Quotes
"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence"
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Comfort Quotes
"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman."
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Marriage Quotes
Commitment Quotes
"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
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Charity Quotes
"Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize"
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Duty Quotes
Fear Quotes
"Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] . . . `Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children.'"
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Age And Aging Quotes
"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
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Age And Aging Quotes
"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice."
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Courage Quotes
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse."
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Critics And Criticism Quotes
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last"
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Curiosity Quotes
"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him."
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Complaints And Complaining Quotes
"I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil"
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Devil Quotes
"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."
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Entertainment Quotes
"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."
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Enthusiasm Quotes
"It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality."
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Equality Quotes
"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
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Fashion Quotes
Opinions Quotes
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