15 Quotations by Johnson
- 1. Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, bu ...
- 2. Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
- 3. He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind ...
- 4. Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he ne ...
- 5. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure ...
- 6. Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
- 7. Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age ...
- 8. One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, theref ...
- 9. Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we wou ...
- 10. Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- 11. The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
- 12. The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged ...
- 13. The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe ...
- 14. The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from th ...
- 15. Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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