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"All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it."
24+ Quotes by Samuel Johnson
A curated collection of 24 inspirational quotes by Samuel Johnson on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it."
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"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."
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"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
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"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
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"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
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"The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities."
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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
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"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
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"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."
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"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."