Tag: Samuel Johnson
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson
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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 a book.
Samuel Johnson
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Samuel Johnson
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel Johnson
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson