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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: dimly
«Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Bachelors
«From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: vitally
«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.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: goods
«I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.»
«There are charms made only for distant admiration.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: charms
«When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.»
«You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: happily, laboring
«Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.»
«To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.»