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There are minds so impatient ...

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

You cannot spend money in lux...

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every man is rich or poor acc...

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Subordination tends greatly t...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Small debts are like small sh...

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I never desire to converse wi...

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

We are long before we are con...

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Paradise Lost is a book that,...

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is reasonable to have perf...

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Friendship, like love, is des...

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

What makes all doctrines plai...

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There are some sluggish men w...

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Books that you carry to the f...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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It generally happens that ass...

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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Money and time are the heavie...

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is dangerous for mortal be...

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that overvalues himself wi...

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Depend upon it that if a man ...

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To be idle and to be poor hav...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I would be loath to speak ill...

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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