Author Topic: ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes ~ (Read 6639 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:08:21 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:08:51 PM »

Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:09:23 PM »

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:09:54 PM »

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:10:28 PM »

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:11:24 PM »

Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:11:55 PM »

When speculation has done its worst two and two still make four.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:12:27 PM »

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:12:55 PM »

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:15:49 PM »

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:16:19 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:17:10 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:17:38 PM »

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:18:04 PM »

To hear complaints is wearisome to the wretched and the happy alike.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** September 15, 2015, 12:18:37 PM »

Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.

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