Tag: Samuel Johnson
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The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Samuel Johnson
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel Johnson
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson