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Samuel Johnson Quotes - Page 67

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Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Men, Luxury, Sensual

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons. Index”, p.309

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

Use, Riches, Values

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.208

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

Political, Politics, Regulation

Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.125

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.

Men, Office, Connections

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Power, Want, Resistance

Samuel Johnson (1812). “Sermons Attributed to Samuel Johnson: And Left for Publication by John Taylor”, p.371

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Power, Evil, Littles

Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.149, Univ of California Press

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

Giving, Splendor, Hours

Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.358

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

People, Hundred, Said

Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.4

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

May, Injury, Repentance

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.7

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Choices, Heaven, Resignation

'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 351 Page references to James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson are to L. F. Powell's revision of G. B. Hill's edition (1934-50; 1964)

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

Resignation

Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.15

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Luxury, Rudeness, Spite

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

School, Mind, Radiation

James Boswell, Alexander Napier, Richard Duppa, Robina Napier, Samuel Johnson (1884). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. Together with the journal of a tour to the Hebrides: James Boswell”

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Art, Temples, Enough

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.150

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world.

Men, Quality, Degrees

Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.135

Self-love is a busy prompter.

Love Is, Self, Self Love

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Yield, May, Littles

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.1

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Forests

In Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 59

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

Scene, Comic, Produce

It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

May, Said, Prudence

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.25

The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Fabric, Poet, Injury

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Charlotte L. Fish (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes ; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.31

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Sleep, Preserves

Samuel Johnson (1836). “Prayers and Meditations, composed by S. Johnson ... and published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... The fourth edition”, p.49

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

Sleep, Nightcap, Knows

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Men, Solitude, Miserable

Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.85

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Retirement, Solitude, Mind

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.22

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