Samuel Johnson
England
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself
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
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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