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Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Born: 18th September 1709, Died: 13th December 1784
Samuel Johnson was an English writer, poet, essayist, critic, and lexicographer.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. Read Summary

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. Read Summary

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. Read Summary

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see. Read Summary

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Read Summary

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Read Summary

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Read Summary

He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Read Summary

The future is purchased by the present. Read Summary

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. Read Summary

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Read Summary

What is easy is seldom excellent. Read Summary

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Read Summary

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Read Summary

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Read Summary

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Read Summary

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? Read Summary

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. Read Summary

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Read Summary

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Read Summary