Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson 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 perseverancedeterminationmotivational 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 pastyearsfall Curiosity is the thirst of the soul. Samuel Johnson thirstcuriositysoul None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence. Samuel Johnson foolinfluenceworry [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 couragemeaningfulmen 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 playwinterspring No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. Samuel Johnson virtuelibertypeople 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 exercisehappinessart Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see. Samuel Johnson inspiring-traveljourneytravel Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson successhappinessmen Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . . Samuel Johnson speakmenthinking 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 medicinehomecountry Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little Samuel Johnson donejudginglittles 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 flowersciencemean Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. Samuel Johnson painfeelsthinking He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Samuel Johnson entertainmentremembertravel Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Samuel Johnson equalitydiseasedeath When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson carpe-diemfocusmen Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. Samuel Johnson grandparentmaturitylong Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. Samuel Johnson valuablehealthycaring
