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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ... Quotes

“Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.”

“The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.”

“Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.”

“He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself.”

“Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.”

“It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.”

“Money confounds subordination.”

“He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.”

“Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.”

“Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.”

“The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.”

“No man was ever great by imitation.”

“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.”

“Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.”

“He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.”

“Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.”

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”

“Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others”

“He that never thinks can never be wise.”

“Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.”

“Avarice is always poor.”

“The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.”

“The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.”

“A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.”