Tag: Samuel Johnson
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel Johnson
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
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Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel Johnson
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He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
Samuel Johnson
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson