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Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered


Samuel Johnson

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DEYTH BANGER There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who are remembered and those who are forgotten. Th...
LORRIN L. LEE Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what the...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
SADIE FROST Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The be...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable.
MAHATMA GANDHI The numbers are up in terms of the total because of the library project.
HOWARD DAVIDSON Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. AUDEN Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. AUDEN Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reac...
GROVER CLEVELAND What people see you do may not be remembered; what they hear you say may be forgotten; but how they ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is onl...
JANE PORTER Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who...
OSHO Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield l...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of whic...
WASHINGTON IRVING They are tough, physical. A bunch of tough guys. I'll probably end up guarding Greg Johnson (the Mid...
ZACH WALDHER They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more ...
BIBLE The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the worl...
K'NAAN Most stuff they teach us in school we will never need in life, that's why over the breaks its forgot...
LIL TREYCO I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so differ...
ANTOINE DE JUSSIEU Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.
JOHNATHAN JENA In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family reci...
ROBERT ST. JOHN We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
TOM STOPPARD In the Historic Core are some of the most magnificent buildings in L.A.. Some of the upper floors al...
CAROL SCHATZ Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Magnificent is a good word. He put on one of the better performances I've seen in quite a while.
JIM CALHOUN My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things, my friends, family and animals a...
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN How many of us suffered to death?
How many of them gained more wealth?

How many of u...
RIXA WHITE Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C. Jealousy is an emotion that humans express when they are angered because of not having something one...
AVIS JOHN Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence
SAMUEL JOHNSON After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfri...
CECELIA AHERN When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER The good people in history are never remembered. The people that do get remembered are the ones who ...
ROBERT ADAMS Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a ...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical id...
G. H. HARDY 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 The Olympic Games are about achievement, which is only possible if the athletes are in peak health. ...
BRIAN PERKINS Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER These are icons to be treasured.
ROBERT STACK Goshawks are things of death and blood and gore, but they are not excuses for atrocities. Their inhu...
HELEN MACDONALD Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don...
HENRY WILLIAMSON Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written bec...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
BRYANT MCGILL Mmm, one does have to learn to look at art. But it’s up to the artist to use language that can be ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I want to look into each one of those, and find out if there are other people whose names do not app...
JAMES DAROSS Children are the most successful people in this world. They find a way to always be busy with someth...
MAICHEE SUMMER Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And...
AGNES MILLE Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And...
AGNES DE MILLE Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking b...
LEMONY SNICKET If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state not because they are beneat...
ISAAC BACKUS Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...
KEITH RICHARDS In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.
CRAIG GROESCHEL India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the gr...
MARK TWAIN Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgot...
AGNES DE MILLE Working to get the library started soothes my conscious because God told me to do this. I realize it...
FRANCES GRIGSBY Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were w...
ALAIN BOTTON Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were w...
ALAIN DE BOTTON If you want to step back, yeah, they are mucking up Johnson & Johnson's bid.
JOANNE K. WUENSCH Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured wil...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I am very proud of the swimmers and divers, they all did a great job. We set several records and pro...
TIM POWERS She wanted to be herself at all costs.
KIERA CASS Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentl...
K. A. APPLEGATE That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply negl...
MICHAEL HARRINGTON Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn’t mean you sh...
JENNY LAWSON Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Trust is never forgotten, it stays in the hear of the most noble of people.
YAN ORTIZ This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in...
BRIAN PERKINS Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY When we are reading, a voice comes to us as in the dark and whispers, "Imagine!" Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BECKETT I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once y...
WADAH KHANFAR I would it's definitely well deserved because the class sizes are small and the teachers make sure y...
SARA ANDERSON You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have nev...
HERMANN HESSE I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written som...
JEANETTE WINTERSON Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a cul...
HUGH MACKAY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a dut...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Dow may be the only college basketball coach in America whose players are sometimes prohibited from ...
BILL PLASCHKE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON

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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.
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.
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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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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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 only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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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.
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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 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...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good unti...
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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 He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
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...
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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...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
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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.
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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.
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