Tag: Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Samuel Johnson
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson