Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson
"I have found men more kind than I expected and less just."
Samuel Johnson
"Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?"
Samuel Johnson
"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
Samuel Johnson
"The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction."
Samuel Johnson
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone."
Samuel Johnson
"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
Samuel Johnson
"Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other."
Samuel Johnson
"Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue."
Samuel Johnson
"That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both."
Samuel Johnson
"Men only become friends by community of pleasures."
Samuel Johnson
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef."
Samuel Johnson
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne."
Samuel Johnson
"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Samuel Johnson
"No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself."
Samuel Johnson
"An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost."
Samuel Johnson
"A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair."
Samuel Johnson
"The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
Samuel Johnson
"Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment."
Samuel Johnson
"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."
Samuel Johnson
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