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Life has no pleasure higher o...

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Terrestrial happiness is of s...

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

As to the Christian religion,...

As to the Christian religion, besides the strong evidence which we have for it, there is a balance in its favor from the number of great men who have been convinced of its truth after a serious consideration of the question. Grotius was an acute man, a lawyer, a man accustomed to examine evidence, and he was convinced. Grotius was not a recluse, but a man of the world, who certainly had no bias on the side of religion. Sir Isaac Newton set out an infidel, and came to be a very firm believer.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Everybody loves to have thing...

Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Among many parallels which me...

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A married man has many cares,...

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

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The care of the critic should...

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I inherited a vile melancholy...

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

People seldom read a book whi...

People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Instead of rating the man by ...

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

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At length weariness succeeds ...

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Praise, like gold and diamond...

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Of the present state, whateve...

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Riches are of no value in the...

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

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The present is never a happy ...

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Any of us would kill a cow ra...

Any of us would kill a cow rather than not have beef.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Pendantry is the unseasonable...

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

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Whatever advantage we snatch ...

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The majority of a society is ...

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Men who could willingly resig...

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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