Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added. Samuel Johnson hate real happiness I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. Samuel Johnson hate integrity funny It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies. Samuel Johnson poverty healthy art Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. Samuel Johnson civilized-nations names giving This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. Samuel Johnson truth-is poverty truth Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow. Samuel Johnson support mean people He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Samuel Johnson poverty poor thinking Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. Samuel Johnson youth age looks I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence. Samuel Johnson delicacy silence beauty One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. Samuel Johnson reading wish book Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. Samuel Johnson be-brave bravery courage High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman. Samuel Johnson sacrifice mother children The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture. Samuel Johnson criticism ambition art Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves. Samuel Johnson able broken long Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men. Samuel Johnson angel teacher men Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it. Samuel Johnson reputation losing men It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it. Samuel Johnson passion heart character Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. Samuel Johnson may firsts thinking Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary. Samuel Johnson joy happiness men The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion. Samuel Johnson yield joy happiness
