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Wasting a fortune is evaporati...

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Riches seldom make their owner...

Riches seldom make their owners rich.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To purchase Heaven has gold th...

To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No--all that's worth a wish--a thought,
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Wealth is nothing in itself; i...

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

When the desire of wealth is t...

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious without pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Whosoever shall look heedfully...

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

You never find people laboring...

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I believe it will be found tha...

I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Mutual complacency is the atmo...

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Fate wings, with every wish, t...

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart,
Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The hapless wit has his labors...

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Wit will never make a man rich...

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Wit is that which has been oft...

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He who would have fine guests,...

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Being married to those sleepy-...

Being married to those sleepy-souled women is just like playing at cards for nothing: no passion is excited and the time is filled up. I do not, however, envy a fellow one of those honeysuckle wives for my part, as they are but creepers at best and commonly destroy the tree they so tenderly cling about.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

If we require more perfection ...

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In matters of business, no wom...

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Words become low by the occasi...

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Words too familiar, or too rem...

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The hopes of zeal are not whol...

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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