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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.
— Samuel Johnson
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.(On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers) — Samuel Johnson
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
— Samuel Johnson
Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
— Samuel Johnson
Never mind the usedo it! — Samuel Johnson
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed
— Samuel Johnson
I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
— Samuel Johnson
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ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.
— Samuel Johnson
The man who is asked by an author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth.
— Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
— Samuel Johnson
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
— Samuel Johnson
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
— Samuel Johnson
Was ever poet so trusted before?
— Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
— Samuel Johnson
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
— Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
— Samuel Johnson
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
— Samuel Johnson
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.
— Samuel Johnson
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.
— Samuel Johnson
I never take a nap after dinnerbut when I have had a bad night,
and then the nap takes me. — Samuel Johnson
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
— Samuel Johnson
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
— Samuel Johnson
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
— Samuel Johnson
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— Samuel Johnson
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
— Samuel Johnson
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
— Samuel Johnson
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
— Samuel Johnson
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
— Samuel Johnson
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
— Samuel Johnson
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
— Samuel Johnson
A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience
— Samuel Johnson
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson
The present is never a happy state to any human being.
— Samuel Johnson
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
— Samuel Johnson
