Samuel Johnson
England
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction
No man was ever great by imitation
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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