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61 Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings
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61 Samuel Johnson Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 18 September 1709. Died: 13 December 1784 |
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Intellect
Certain
One
Permanent
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Great
Performed
Perseverance
Strength
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Samuel Johnson
Disagreeable
I Think
Least
Music
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
Find
Information
Kinds
Know
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
Being
Chance
Drowned
Jail
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
Fine
Meet
Out
Over
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson
Advertisement
Large
Promise
Soul
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Absolutely
Good
He
Him
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
Disadvantages
Makes
Man
Mistake
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
Been
Frost
Gives
Had
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
Anything
Changing
Disposition
Efforts
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson
Almost
Attempting
Display
Does
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson
Any
Because
Courage
Greatest
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
Compared
Consider
Done
He
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
Even
Fondness
Kindness
Our
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
Bed
Before
Going
Scoundrel
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Art
Pleasure
Poetry
Truth
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel Johnson
Given
Law
Little
Much
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Certain
Characteristics
Curiosity
Intellect
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Acquaintances
Advances
Alone
Constant
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Easy
Excellent
Seldom
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
Aim
Ambition
Cannot
Cured
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Samuel Johnson
Arises
Authors
Chief
Every
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson
Almost
Great
Love
Self
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed
Samuel Johnson
Alone
Born
Complaining
Crying
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself
Samuel Johnson
Been
Genius
Has-Been
Himself
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
Deliberation
How
Idle
Life
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
Afford
He
Life
London
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson
Collection
Distribution
Memory
Offices
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
Any
Been
Calamity
Escaped
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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Apply
Between
Cannot
Difference
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
Design
Difficult
Easy
Many
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Ideas
Signs
Words
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
Argument
Brought
Evidently
Evil
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Samuel Johnson
About
Again
Before
Clear
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
According
Between
Desires
Every
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
Down
Going
Grand
Like
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson
Appear
Dreams
Man
Realities
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson
Books
Few
Friends
Like
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Samuel Johnson
Alive
Die
He
Life
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
Dangerous
Dreadful
Integrity
Knowledge
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Counsel
Despair
Determination
Diligence
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Attempted
Ever
First
Must
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First
Great
Requisite
Self-Confidence
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
Expect
Folly
Keep
Others
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
Affords
Another
Difficulties
Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
Any
Attain
Commonly
Easier
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About
Carelessness
Falsehood
Intentionally
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
Being
Better
Chance
Commonly
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Art
Attention
Memory
True
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