Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Samuel Johnson
"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."
Samuel Johnson
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
Samuel Johnson
"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."
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
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Samuel Johnson
"When 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
"Read over your compositions and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine strike it out."
Samuel Johnson
"The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book I assure you."
Samuel Johnson
"The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth."
Samuel Johnson
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
Samuel Johnson
"Your manuscript is both good and original but the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good."
Samuel Johnson
"Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young."
Samuel Johnson
"When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four."
Samuel Johnson
"Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach."
Samuel Johnson
"Languages are the pedigree of nations."
Samuel Johnson
"I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth and that things are the sons of heaven."
Samuel Johnson
"Men know that women are an overmatch for them and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."
Samuel Johnson
"Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better."
Samuel Johnson
"It is better to live rich than to die rich."
Samuel Johnson
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