Quotes by English/England authors (page 54)

"The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Love is only one of many passions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"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, Author

"Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Language is the dress of thought"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"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, Author

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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