Quotes by English/England authors (page 52)

"A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally"

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"These are the times that try men's souls"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No man was ever great by imitation"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Time makes more converts than reason"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"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, Author

"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"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, Author

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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