Samuel Johnson Quotes

English - Author September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Strength Patience Perseverance Great

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art Memory True Attention

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Passion Justice Revenge Injuries

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Smile Me Wise Rich

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness Power Our Even Fondness

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

World Down Staircase Like

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Good Man True Someone

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Positive Friend Mind Your Clear

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Knowledge Integrity Dangerous Useless

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Great Self-Confidence First Requisite

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Samuel Johnson
Quotes

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

She Agriculture Nation Own

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Value Gold Diamonds Praise Only

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Moment Hope Future Mind

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Broken Strong Habit Chains

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Marriage Men Married Wives Bachelors

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Life Live Choice Your

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life Success Step New

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism Last Refuge Scoundrel

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.

Strength Perseverance Determination

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Conquer Difficulties Human Strive

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Friendship Love Feeling Like

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Communication Words Ideas Signs

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Hope Learn Diligence First

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

Spring Man Flowers He

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Only Admiration Charms Made

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Effort Without Pleasure General

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