Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6641 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:00:00 PM »

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:00:30 PM »

He that has much to do will do something wrong.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:01:01 PM »

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:01:31 PM »

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:02:09 PM »

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:03:12 PM »

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:03:44 PM »

Men only become friends by community of pleasures.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:04:25 PM »

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:04:56 PM »

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:05:32 PM »

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:06:15 PM »

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:06:47 PM »

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:07:25 PM »

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:07:59 PM »

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** September 14, 2015, 01:08:30 PM »

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

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