To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson More Quotes by Samuel Johnson More Quotes From Samuel Johnson The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it. Samuel Johnson eyeviewssight Hope is itself a species of happiness. Samuel Johnson speciesanticipation Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Samuel Johnson flatterydebtpraise It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. Samuel Johnson patriotevildesire There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. Samuel Johnson envycauseschance When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson tiredmenlife There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Samuel Johnson gratitudepainrevenge No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Samuel Johnson moneyworkart The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson natureinspirationaltravel The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Samuel Johnson powerfultimebook Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. Samuel Johnson moneykindnesslife What is easy is seldom excellent. Samuel Johnson excellenteasy A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson inferioritymentravel He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson fitnessfoodmotivational He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Samuel Johnson flatterycriticisminspirational The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. Samuel Johnson officememoriestwo Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. Samuel Johnson businesswisewitty There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson beerhappinessmen We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson happinesslongbelieve I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. Samuel Johnson powerfulcriticismart
