Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

…it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

Labor

Poet

Writing

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..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

Different

Praise

Writing

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“Uisce Beatha” is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

Flavour

Spirit

Whiskey

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1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise. 2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost. 3. Do not continue any day’s journey to fatigue. 4. Take now and then a day’s rest. 5. Get a smart seasickness if you can. 6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy. This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

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Journey

Smart

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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Blades

Country

Grass

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A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

Firsts

Sight

Tire

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A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.

Atmosphere

Conceit

Vanity

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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

May

Past

Pride

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A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Country

Law

Prison

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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Animal

Cows

Garden

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