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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
— Samuel Johnson
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
— Samuel Johnson
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
— Samuel Johnson
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
— Samuel Johnson
The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place.
— Samuel Johnson
It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.
— Samuel Johnson
Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
— Samuel Johnson
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
— Samuel Johnson
As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
— Adam M. Grant
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
— Samuel Johnson
Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
— Samuel Johnson
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.
— Samuel Johnson
Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
— Samuel Johnson
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see.
— Samuel Johnson
For who is pleased with himself.
— Samuel Johnson
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
— Samuel Johnson
You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
— Samuel Johnson
A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.
— Samuel Johnson
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
— Samuel Johnson
It is commonly a weak man who marries for love.
— 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
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
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
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
— Samuel Johnson
No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
— Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
— Samuel Johnson
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
— Samuel Johnson
It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;
— Samuel Johnson
Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
— Samuel Johnson
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
— Samuel Johnson
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
— Samuel Johnson
Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
— Samuel Johnson