Tag: Samuel Johnson
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Samuel Johnson
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Samuel Johnson
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson
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You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Samuel Johnson
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson