502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 81. Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- 82. Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
- 83. Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
- 84. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny ...
- 85. Don't attitudenize.
- 86. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fello ...
- 87. Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him do ...
- 88. Every man is of importance to himself.
- 89. Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his i ...
- 90. Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
- 91. Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes ...
- 92. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and eve ...
- 93. Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human powe ...
- 94. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- 95. Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he cou ...
- 96. Example is always more efficacious than precept.
- 97. Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purcha ...
- 98. Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well a ...
- 99. Exercise is labor without weariness.
- 100. Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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