Tag: Samuel Johnson
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson