502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 321. Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike ...
- 322. Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.
- 323. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...
- 324. Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; ...
- 325. Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
- 326. Round numbers are always false.
- 327. Security will produce danger.
- 328. Security will produce danger.
- 329. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- 330. Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu ...
- 331. Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persu ...
- 332. Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
- 333. Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- 334. Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- 335. Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find ...
- 336. Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a g ...
- 337. Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that ...
- 338. Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that ...
- 339. Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man ...
- 340. Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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