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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
By Samuel Johnson
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
By Samuel Johnson
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
By Samuel Johnson
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.
By Samuel Johnson
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
By Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
By Samuel Johnson
No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
By Samuel Johnson
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
By Samuel Johnson
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
By Samuel Johnson
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
By Samuel Johnson
Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
By Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
By Samuel Johnson
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
By Samuel Johnson
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
By Samuel Johnson
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
By Samuel Johnson
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
By Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
By Samuel Johnson