Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson