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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings? (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A soldier’s time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier’s breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
... a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words (Samuel Johnson Quotes)