Samuel Johnson on goodness
Samuel Johnson95 quotes“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson What is easy is seldom excellent.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson
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