742 Quotations with Johnson.
- 21. Samuel Johnson: It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compa ...
- 22. Samuel Johnson: Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind ...
- 23. Johnson: The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to t ...
- 24. Samuel Johnson: It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated ...
- 25. Ben Johnson: No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man ...
- 26. Samuel Johnson: You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are do ...
- 27. Samuel Johnson: To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be ...
- 28. Johnson: Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
- 29. Johnson: Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not gi ...
- 30. Samuel Johnson: No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- 31. Johnson: Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with t ...
- 32. Johnson: Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled ...
- 33. Johnson: Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the l ...
- 34. Johnson: Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
- 35. Johnson: He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the ...
- 36. Johnson: It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy ...
- 37. Johnson: The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud ag ...
- 38. Johnson: Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- 39. Samuel Johnson: He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short s ...
- 40. Johnson: One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, a ...
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