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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Samuel Johnson quotes

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

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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 best part of every author is in general to be found in his..."
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his..."
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none..."
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of..."
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men..."
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get. 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
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. 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
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to..."
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. Samuel Johnson
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson quote: "Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is..."
Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness. Samuel Johnson

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