Samuel Johnson Quotes About Inspirational
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
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