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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel Johnson quotes about humanity

English Author, Critic September 18, 1709 – December 13, 1784

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be..."
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to..."
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Samuel Johnson
The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of..."
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Samuel Johnson
How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find: Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that..."
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. Samuel Johnson
No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the..."
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson

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