Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Samuel Johnson
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson