Samuel Johnson
England
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss
Pleasure itself is not a vice
Our aspirations are our possibilities
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend
Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves
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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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