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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.


Samuel Johnson

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TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT He who waits on God never waits too long
CHUCK WAGNER All good things come to he who waits
PROVERB Johnson & Johnson is negotiating in public, and that's never a good sign. We don't expect them to ge...
NANCY HAVENS He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
OSCAR WILDE When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
OSCAR WILDE If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
TOM RATH If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
KEVIN SMITH Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
PETER BLAKE He pitched good, not great. And if he doesn't give it up to Johnson, he pitches great.
CLIFF FLOYD Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES The CEOs who do this are people who have never failed at anything.
TED KENNEDY Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be conti...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.
BOBBY ALLISON A girl in love will do a good deal.
ELIZABETH GASKELL I don't know how good he is. I've never leaned on him hard enough to find out. I haven't really aske...
DICK BRIGHT A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this...
HAROLD MACMILLAN First share who you are, then share what you do.
LORRIN L. LEE Be so good at what You do . . .
Even those who hate You, or want to, wouldn't naturally have a...
UFUOMA APOKI Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
SUN TZU August did a a lot of good work on the play, and it's changed a great deal from Yale. He knew what h...
GORDON DAVIDSON I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the gam...
JOEL KINNAMAN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mi...
SAMUEL SMILES Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do b...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS Can Derrick Blaylock be Priest Holmes? No. But can Derrick be Derrick Blaylock? Yeah. He can go out ...
TONY RICHARDSON I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have lear...
DO WON CHANG It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who be...
DO WON CHANG When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked a...
DO WON CHANG My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
ILIE NASTASE In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances,...
SALMAN KHURSHID Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very...
D. L. MOODY Who waits until the wind shall silent keep, Will never find the ready hour to sow
HELEN FISKE HUNT JACKSON You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE “My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a...
RENé DAUMAL A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do.
FRED ESTABROOK Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say th...
JOSH HUTCHERSON Kent has never been one to stick with a lot of anything. He can do anything, but he gets bored too e...
TERRY PROFFIT who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.
MAIRA KALMAN I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at al...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at a...
HENRY WARD PEECHER I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at a...
HENRY WARD BEECHER He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILL She would never make you do anything she wouldn't do herself. That's the key to being a good manager...
HOLLY JOHNSON He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He apologized for it about 20 million times. He's a good guy. I know he would never do anything like...
GAVIN GRANT People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE I'm pretty sure it would work pretty good. He's a great athlete and I'm sure he can do anything on e...
WILLIS MCGAHEE Bob Huggins, a lot of times, is misunderstood. He's someone who cares a great deal about his players...
RICK PITINO He would do anything to help anyone. He was a person who cared.
CAROLYN SCOTT We will continue to do that. There is a great deal of upside potential in leaving the company as is.
DON OLSEN Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he ...
GERALD STANLEY LEE If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of ...
R. A. TORREY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand w...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand w...
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
BALTASAR GRACIAN When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t...
GARY F EVANS... he will do a great job.
CHARLES MEYERS Looking at the numbers he had a great year. It was a really good deal for him.
CODY VANDERFORD Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the par...
ROLAND BARTHES A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately w...
VIKTOR FRANKL My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that...
ALEX RODRIGUEZ I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. ...
DOROTHY PARKER A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
E(DWARD) W(YLLIS) SCRIPPS My eyes bulged out of my head as I saw what rested between his hips. “Good Lord!” I said without...
JAYE WELLS Once you know math really good, you will see things in a different light. It will help me financiall...
LORETTA GILREATH And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do wh...
BIBLE I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER These things go in cycles, they do at all schools ... and I think West can go up. Gary Johnson did a...
MICKEY DELAMAR In Russia, we still have a great deal of work to do.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Once he gets in and just plays natural, be himself, he's going to do great. I like this guy. He's no...
MICKEY RIVERS Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, beca...
ANDY SERKIS Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth i...
G. W. F. HEGEL J.J. was sensational once we found him. We did not do a good job of finding him at first, but once w...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Most likely Congress will do little or nothing but talk a great deal and hold hearings,
BYRON DORGAN It's great to be good at a bunch of things, but colleges look for students who do one to two things ...
CHUCK HUGHES A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watchi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
HENRY DRUMMOND There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all th...
JERRY DELLA FEMINA A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of a...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it!
T.S. ELIOT Never do anything you'll regret. Never regret anything you do.
LEA MISHELL It's a big deal to have a great slot at the festival, and we do. We're prime time Friday at 7 p.m.
MARISA MILLER

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SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the fals...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises every body, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whatever you have spend less.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little g...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talk...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him littl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illust...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The endearing elegance of female friendship.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too sle...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continuall...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his ut...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharg...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the publi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON "He was a very good hater."
SAMUEL JOHNSON I like a good hater.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posse...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purc...
SAMUEL JOHNSON My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let u...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagre...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but per...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and att...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dr...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the par...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full mea...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his serva...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hangi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good unti...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effront...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. B...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make fa...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as m...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be aft...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves wit...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiabl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, an...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and la...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly beco...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Suspicion is most often useless pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No one ever became great by imitation.
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