Samuel Johnson Quotations

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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Women]

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Holidays]

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Risk]

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Risk]

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Goals]

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Libraries]

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Hope]

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Complaints]

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Night]

Grief is a species of idleness.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Grief]

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Grief]

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Idleness] [Opportunity]

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Idleness]

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Letters]

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Habits]

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick.
	- Samuel Johnson	more quotations on [Advertising]

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