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Samuel Johnson Quotes - Page 5

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Language is the dress of thought.

Language is the dress of thought.

Writing, Learning, Thinking

Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

Silence, Silence Is, Knows

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

Theory, Inconvenience

Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.321

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Good Morning, Lying, Sunshine

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.401

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

Greatness, Firsts, Steps

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Reviews, political tracts, and Lives of eminent persons”, p.311

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Soul, Curiosity, Thirst

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.154

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

God, Men, Shame

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.198

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

People, Liberty, Virtue

"An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain" (1756)

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

Men, Delay, Faults

Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.145

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

Employment, Hardship, Melancholy

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.

Hope, Endeavor, No Hope

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 375-78, The Rambler No. 110, 1922.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

Pain, Thinking, Feels

The Rambler No. 48, 1 September (1750)

Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

Real, Evil, Wish

Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

Nature, Climate Change, Deviation

Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.43

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Opponents, Belief, Argument

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Would Be, Rich Poor, Frugal

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.20

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Happiness, Happy, Laughter

"The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Work, Intellectual, Statistics

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 219 (13 April 1773)

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

Dream, Art, Philosophy

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.167

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Art, Writing, Thinking

"The Sayings of Doctor Johnson".

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Men, Thinking, Freedom Of Speech

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 12 (1780)

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

Food, Cucumbers, Vinegar

In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 5 October 1773

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

World, Staircases

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Hope, Courage

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.

Exercise, Mind, Use

Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.

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