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Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford."

Now ... that you are going to marry, do not expect more from life, than life will afford.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year."

Surely, it is much easier to respect a man who has always had respect, than to respect a man who we know was last year no better than ourselves, and will be no better next year.




Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist."

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid."

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.




Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Inquiries into the heart are not for man."

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit."

A newswriter is a man without virtue, who lies at home for his own profit.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine."

In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.




Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible."

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "The joy of life is variety."

The joy of life is variety.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience."

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant"

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn."

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.




Samuel Johnson Quotes: "We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion."

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "True enjoyments also keep people from vice."

True enjoyments also keep people from vice.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour."

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick."

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.



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

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



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "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."

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.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment."

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience."

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.



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

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



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them."

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness."

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative."

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment."

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation."

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not."

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Towering is the confidence of twenty-one."

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing."

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Most men are unwilling to be taught."

Most men are unwilling to be taught.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little."

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate."

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "To be prejudiced is always to be weak"

To be prejudiced is always to be weak



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions."

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death."

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "As long as one lives he will have need of repentance."

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating."

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry."

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness."

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself"

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them."

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence."

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich."

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities."

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry."

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Celestial wisdom calms the mind."

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination."

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice."

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.



Samuel Johnson Quotes: "Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!"

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!