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All the performances of human...

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The liberty of using harmless...

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Nothing is more common than m...

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

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There is no temper more unpro...

There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Poetry cannot be translated; ...

Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The great source of pleasure ...

The great source of pleasure is variety.

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There is always something a w...

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

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An infallible characteristic ...

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Marriage is the best state fo...

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

From ignorance our comfort fl...

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A cow is a very good animal i...

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

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A patriot is he whose public ...

A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest

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When a man marries a widow hi...

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

We owe to memory not only the...

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

For sorrow there is no remedy...

For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return, or the past should be recalled.

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Confidence is a plant of slow...

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Language is the dress of thou...

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I have no more pleasure in he...

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The friendship which is to be...

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every other author may aspire...

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

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