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" Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. "

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" 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. "

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Happiness

Alive

" When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. "

Samuel Johnson

Come

Fit

" The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. "

Samuel Johnson

Man

Measure

" Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "

" Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "

" What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. "

" Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. "

Samuel Johnson

Think

Leads

" Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. "

" Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. "

" The true art of memory is the art of attention. "

" The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. "

" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. "

" The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

" Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. "

" You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. "

" Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. "

" Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. "

" He who praises everybody, praises nobody. "

Samuel Johnson

Praises

Everybody

" It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. "

" A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. "

" Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. "

" To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. "

" Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. "

" Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

" The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. "

" You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. "

" I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. "

Samuel Johnson

Converse

Desire

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" 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. "