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The main of life is composed ...

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Probably no one will ever kno...

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The life of a solitary man wi...

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Words become low by the occas...

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

A man who always talks for fa...

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

When the desire of wealth is ...

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

The greatest human virtue bea...

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Truth, such as is necessary t...

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.

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The hopes of zeal are not who...

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.

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It was said of Euripides, tha...

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

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Men have been wise in many di...

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

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A small country town is not t...

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Ease, a neutral state between...

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The labor of rising from the ...

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

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From Bard, to Bard, the frigi...

From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept, Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Pour forth thy fervors for a ...

Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned

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Forgetfulness is necessary to...

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

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Excise: A hateful tax levied ...

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

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If useless thoughts could be ...

If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In discussing these exception...

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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