Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life."
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"To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life."
Samuel Johnson
"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
"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
Samuel Johnson
"An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate" an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry and generally satisfy the most extensive desires if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence to be overrun with noxious plants or laid out for show rather than for use."
Samuel Johnson
"He left the name at which the world grew pale To point a moral or adorn a tale."
Samuel Johnson
"Had I learned to fiddle I should have done nothing else."
Samuel Johnson
"The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."
Samuel Johnson
"As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women."
Samuel Johnson
"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood."
Samuel Johnson
"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."
Samuel Johnson
"Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it."
Samuel Johnson
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Samuel Johnson
"Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor."
Samuel Johnson
"The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking."
Samuel Johnson
"The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence."
Samuel Johnson
"In a man's letters his soul lies naked."
Samuel Johnson
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson
"It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity."
Samuel Johnson
"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth."
Samuel Johnson
"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
Samuel Johnson
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