502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 201. It is our first duty to serve society.
- 202. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure ...
- 203. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever ...
- 204. It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are o ...
- 205. It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharg ...
- 206. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either o ...
- 207. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so ...
- 208. It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be aft ...
- 209. It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
- 210. It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; ...
- 211. It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remem ...
- 212. Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who ...
- 213. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
- 214. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- 215. Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external age ...
- 216. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
- 217. Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information abo ...
- 218. Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
- 219. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
- 220. Language is the dress of thought.
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