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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises»
«No man heartily hates him at who he can laugh»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Laughter
«The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes»
«No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong»
«The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: collection
«A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Genius | Keywords: ruined
«All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Arguments | Keywords: represent
«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.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: doctrines
«Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: enjoyments
«Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.»