Samuel Johnson
England
18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
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18 Sep 1709 // 13 Dec 1784
Writer
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One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend
Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves
No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures
No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice
Money confounds subordination
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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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