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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Written by Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Written by Samuel Johnson
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Written by Samuel Johnson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Written by Samuel Johnson
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Written by Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Written by Samuel Johnson
What is easy is seldom excellent.
Written by Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Written by Samuel Johnson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Written by Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Written by Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Written by Samuel Johnson
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Written by Samuel Johnson
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Written by Samuel Johnson
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Written by Samuel Johnson
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.
Written by Samuel Johnson
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Written by Samuel Johnson

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