502 Quotations by Samuel Johnson
- 101. Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is n ...
- 102. Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t ...
- 103. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill...Great works are performed, not by strength, but p ...
- 104. Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a s ...
- 105. For who is pleased with himself.
- 106. Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue.
- 107. Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.
- 108. Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by ...
- 109. Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continuall ...
- 110. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissio ...
- 111. Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which wi ...
- 112. Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- 113. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- 114. Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest ...
- 115. Grief is a species of idleness.
- 116. He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may b ...
- 117. He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
- 118. He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
- 119. He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind ...
- 120. He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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