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I am very fond of the company...

I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

As any action or posture, lon...

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Those writers who lie on the ...

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In traveling, a man must carr...

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

One of the amusements of idle...

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

No mind is much employed upon...

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

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The world will never be long ...

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Happiness is enjoyed only in ...

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Bravery has no place where it...

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Claret is the liquor for boys...

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The pleasure of expecting enj...

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Golf is a game in which you c...

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He who expects much will be o...

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The essence of poetry is inve...

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

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He is not only dull himself, ...

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

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Life is a pill which none of ...

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

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You may translate books of sc...

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

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Advertisements are now so num...

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

So different are the colors o...

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

And panting Time toil'd after...

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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