It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there
are certain pauses, and interruptions which force consideration
upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light;
points of time where one course of action ends and another begins.
--Samuel Johnson
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found,
and each believes it is possessed by others,
to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
--Samuel Johnson
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
--Samuel Johnson
In all pleasure hope is a considerable part
--Samuel Johnson
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps,
the chief happiness which this world affords.
--Samuel Johnson
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion
between his desires and his enjoyments.
--Samuel Johnson
The friendship which is to be practised or expected by
common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure,
and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
--Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the
good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Hope is necessary in every condition.
The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would,
without this comfort, be insupportable.
--Samuel Johnson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not
sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear
beyond the limits of sober probability.
--Samuel Johnson
We love to expect, and when expectation is either
disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
--Samuel Johnson
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
--Samuel Johnson
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
--Samuel Johnson
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life
in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often
gained upon easier terms.
--Samuel Johnson
The plaintiff and the defendant in an action are like two men
ducking their heads in a bucket,
and daring each other to remain longest under water
--Samuel Johnson
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant
--Samuel Johnson - More here
He that would be superior to external influences m
ust first become superior to his own passions.
--Samuel Johnson
Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning
than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and
vilify what they do not understand.
--Samuel Johnson
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
--Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain
characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
--Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds,
the first passion and the last.
--Samuel Johnson
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes.
Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise
--Samuel Johnson
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
--Samuel Johnson Essayist, Lexicographer
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life
into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,
and so recur habitually to the mind
--Samuel Johnson
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth,
it is necessary that all should learn to hear it.
--Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
--Samuel Johnson
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied,
secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature
what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art
--Samuel Johnson
Whatever you have, spend less
--Samuel Johnson
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we
put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
--Samuel Johnson
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