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Samuel Johnson

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TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
A.W. TOZER If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.
TOBA BETA The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which ...
DAVID WILMOT Bring a good book to the poor, it is necessary for existence, for the dignified existence, but befor...
MARIANA FULGER It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
THOMAS PAINE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
LAURE96 If they had (Johnson) it would be them and the rest of us.
DENNIS DACUS If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
GEORGE ADE If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable
GEORGE ADE These are just slush funds for conservative interest groups. These organizations would not be in exi...
BILL SMITH Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISON Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON ...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, ...
ARISTOTLE Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. The sanction of ...
CARL MENGER I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duch...
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit ...
JOHN TILLOTSON To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to res...
LOUIS ALTHUSSER There can be no excuse for the startling incompetence of the Home Office in allowing this man to esc...
DAVID DAVIS There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.
MARGARET ATWOOD Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas product...
AUBREY MCCLENDON To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n...
JAMES MADISON If the president were not involved, if an ordinary citizen were the subject of the inquiry ... this ...
THOMAS SULLIVAN If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
DOUG LARSON Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion...
FARAAZ KAZI The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne...
KARL MARX The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ...
KARL MARX Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happiness would lose its mea...
ALISHIA SOUTHALL Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is...
DEYTH BANGER I'd say he is the indispensable man for us right now.
BRYAN STINESPRING No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to...
OG MANDINO If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual wo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
THOMAS FULLER If it were not for hope, the heart would break
GREEK PROVERB How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ...
KATIE MCGARRY Sophie and Charles did not live neatly, but neatness, Sophie thought, was not necessary for happines...
KATHERINE RUNDELL It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...
THOMAS PAINE It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not...
THOMAS PAINE Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom...
PAULO FREIRE Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.
JOAN LAPORTA The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
GEORGE MOORE Human population supplies the labor necessary for the creation of wealth; carbon supplies the matter...
ROBERT ZUBRIN If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not en...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Such is the constitution of man that labor may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incit...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.
HERACLITUS From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
KATHARINE WHITEHORN From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
KATHERINE WHITEHORN Industry is not only the instrument of improvement, but the foundation of pleasure. He who is a stra...
ROBERT BLAIR If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would...
GLENN FREY Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SAINT BASIL Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
SHOLEM ASCH Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something us...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, i...
C.G. JUNG If only the world were full of truth, things would be better.
JOSH CHILDERS It is necessary that one who really and truly fights for the right, if he is to survive even for a s...
SOCRATES What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness ...
CHIEF SEATTLE During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A lifetime of happiness ! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If there would have been subjective meaning of LIFE, it would be Happiness..
PANKAJ MATHUR If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual momen...
OUIDA We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
BUTCH TRUCKS If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.
VOLTAIRE We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their h...
VOLTAIRE Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actu...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
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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.
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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.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of t...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, t...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
SAMUEL JOHNSON All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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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...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
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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.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Suspicion is most often useless pain.
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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...
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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.
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