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" A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. "
Samuel Johnson
Him
Man
Task
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" It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability. "
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" Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. "
Samuel Johnson
Man
Depend
Nothing
" Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. "
Samuel Johnson
Me
I Am
Confidence
" Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. "
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Indeed
Melancholy
" In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. "
Samuel Johnson
Learn
Hear
Order
" You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you. "
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You
Walk
Politics
" There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. "
Samuel Johnson
Money
Getting
Ways
" The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. "
Samuel Johnson
Distribution
Two
Memory
" Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. "
Samuel Johnson
Refuge
Patriotism
Scoundrel
" To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. "
Samuel Johnson
Self
Love
Great
" The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. "
Samuel Johnson
Than
Contempt
More
" 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
Revenge
Gratitude
Minds
" 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
Determination
Perseverance
Strength
" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "
Samuel Johnson
Uniting
Poetry
Pleasure
" Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. "
Samuel Johnson
Should
Like
Friends
" Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. "
Samuel Johnson
Spend
Who
Easier
" No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. "
Samuel Johnson
Autumn
Taste
Spring
" Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. "
Samuel Johnson
Love Is
Short
Friendship
" Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. "
Samuel Johnson
Power
Truth
Evidence
" The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. "
Samuel Johnson
Necessary
Love
Life
" There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. "
Samuel Johnson
Good
Man
People
" Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. "
Samuel Johnson
Either
Know
Life
" I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. "
Samuel Johnson
Conquered
Will
" It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. "
Samuel Johnson
Truth
Light
Dangerous
" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "
Samuel Johnson
Being
Secret
Motives
" I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. "
Samuel Johnson
Kind
Men
Just
" A man will turn over half a library to make one book. "
Samuel Johnson
Will
Library
Turn
" It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. "
Samuel Johnson
Suffer
Wrong
Trust
" Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. "
Samuel Johnson
Advertisement
Soul
Promise
" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "
Samuel Johnson
Dreams
Man
Seems