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Quotes By Samuel Johnson

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Samuel Johnson
Large Promise Soul

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson
Gratitude Pain Revenge

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Samuel Johnson
Attempt Fresh Grief

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Samuel Johnson
GreatKnowledgeMight

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Samuel Johnson
Grand Staircase

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
BirthdayCare Remember

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson
FuturePresent Purchased

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

Samuel Johnson
NatureEnjoy Sunshine

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson
WisdomOthers Secret

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson
LifeSocietyCannot

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson
DesignDifficult Easy

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson
Flowers Spring Taste

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Samuel Johnson
TravelThinking Use

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson
LifeLeave Tired

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Samuel Johnson
ChanceFoodHimself
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