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Samuel Johnson Quotes - Page 57

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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Government, Order, Law

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Men, House, Wages

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

Men, Taught, Unwilling

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Littles, Waste

Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.272

Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.

Fashion, World, May

Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “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 Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.30

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Weak

Samuel Johnson (1775). “The Pamphlet, Entitled, "Taxation No Tyranny," Candidly Considered, and It's [sic] Arguments, and Pernicious Doctrines, Exposed and Refuted”, p.13

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Littles, Kingdoms, Revolution

Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.71

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Life Is, Thoughts Of Death, Whole

Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.456

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Long, Needs, Repentance

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Light, Language, Lanterns

We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.

Needs, Reminding, Ifs

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

Humility, Pride, Sometimes

Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.108

Nothing is more common than for men to make partial and absurd distinctions between vices of equal enormity, and to observe some of the divine commands with great scrupulousness, while they violate others, equally important, without any concern, or the least apparent conciousness of guilt. Alas, it is only wisdom which perceives this tragedy.

Men, Important, Tragedy

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Greatness, Understanding, Virtue

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.22

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Decay, Disease, Slender

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.81

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself

Men, Should, Teach

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.89

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

People, Ifs

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

Men, Life Is, States

Samuel Johnson (1835). “Sermons”, p.308

He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

Men, Care, Littles

Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...”, p.490

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

Eye, Men, Thinking

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.399

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Opportunity, Excellence, Quality

Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.253

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Useless, Exception

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

Mind, Calm, Celestial

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1868). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including His Tour to the Hebrides, Correspondence with Mrs. Thrale, &c. With Numerous Additions”, p.226

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

Imagination, Existence

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “Life of Shakespeare. Dr. Johnson's preface. The tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona”, p.74

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Practice, Speech, Opinion

Samuel Johnson (1833). “A Dictionary of the English Language in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed, a History of the Language and an English Grammar”, p.23

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