Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Samuel Johnson quotes, Samuel Johnson sayings, and Samuel Johnson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.Samuel Johnson
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Judgment is forced upon us by experienceSamuel Johnson
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Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.Samuel Johnson
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.Samuel Johnson
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How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.Samuel Johnson
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.Samuel Johnson
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.Samuel Johnson
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Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.Samuel Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.Samuel Johnson
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Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.Samuel Johnson
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.Samuel Johnson
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Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.Samuel Johnson
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.Samuel Johnson
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The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge.Samuel Johnson
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things.Samuel Johnson
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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
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.Samuel Johnson
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Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distance admiration.Samuel Johnson
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Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.Samuel Johnson
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.Samuel Johnson
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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
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.Samuel Johnson
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.Samuel Johnson
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.Samuel Johnson
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Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?Samuel Johnson
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An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.Samuel Johnson
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel Johnson
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He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.Samuel Johnson
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