502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 461. Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without ...
- 462. Virtue is too often merely local.
- 463. We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and ...
- 464. We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
- 465. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it posses ...
- 466. We grow weary of those things which we most desire.
- 467. We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp ...
- 468. We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
- 469. Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
- 470. What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve res ...
- 471. What ills from beauty spring.
- 472. What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
- 473. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- 474. What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of t ...
- 475. What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
- 476. Whatever enlarges hope will also exhalt courage
- 477. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the fut ...
- 478. When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- 479. When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
- 480. When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish ...
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