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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who is good enough to go to heaven, is good enough to be a clergyman (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends (Samuel Johnson Quotes)