Life protracted is protracted woe. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson pity usual complaining 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. Samuel Johnson perseverance determination motivational He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground. Samuel Johnson past years fall Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. Samuel Johnson thirst curiosity soul None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence. Samuel Johnson fool influence worry [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. Samuel Johnson courage meaningful men It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood. Samuel Johnson play winter spring No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. Samuel Johnson virtue liberty people To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise. Samuel Johnson exercise happiness art Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see. Samuel Johnson inspiring-travel journey travel Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson success happiness men Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . Samuel Johnson speak men thinking He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every Nation has something peculiar in its Manufactures, its Works of Genius, its Medicines, its Agriculture, its Customs, and its Policy. He only is a useful Traveller, who brings home something by which his country may be benefited; who procures some supply of Want, or some mitigation of Evil, which may enable his readers to compare their condition with that of others, to improve it whenever it is worse, and whenever it is better to enjoy it. Samuel Johnson medicine home country Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little Samuel Johnson done judging littles To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton. Samuel Johnson flower science mean Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. Samuel Johnson pain feels thinking He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Samuel Johnson entertainment remember travel Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Samuel Johnson equality disease death When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson carpe-diem focus men Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. Samuel Johnson grandparent maturity long
