Samuel Johnson Quotes on Self Love Being Arrogant
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Life and New Wishes
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Books and Friends
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ~ Samuel Johnson View some more quotes on friends
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Men and Life
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. ~ Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Hate and Love
“Men hate more steadily than they love.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more related quotes on Men.
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Samuel Johnson on Expectation and Disappointment
“We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.” ~ Samuel
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on a Funny One Idea
“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.” ~ Samuel Johnson View
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Two Kinds of Knowledge
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Mankind and Hate
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Men and Inspiration
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more related quotes on People.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Love and Boundaries
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more related
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Effort and Pleasure in Writing
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more related quotes on
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Choice and Life
“When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more related quotes on
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Funny and Attorney
“I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Desire and Life
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. ~ Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on London Life
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Displaying Qualities
“Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.” ~ Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Friendship and Champagne
“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Possible Objections
“Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” ~ Samuel Johnson View some more Poetry
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Happiness and Lying Awake
The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ~ Samuel
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