Samuel Johnson

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Born	Monday, 30 November -0001
Category	Social Activists
Quotes	130

Dr. Samuel Johnson, an 18th century English author, published The Dictionary of English Language in 1755. He also earned immense admiration among literary critics for his fiction novels, poems and plays. Gain inspiration from the wise words of Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.	Uncategorized
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.	Uncategorized
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.	Uncategorized
What is easy is seldom excellent.	Uncategorized
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.	Uncategorized
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.	Uncategorized
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.	Uncategorized
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.	Uncategorized
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.	Uncategorized
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.	Uncategorized
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/samuel_johnson_2.html#HhcpdtkF2fyxu562.99	Uncategorized
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.	Uncategorized
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.	Uncategorized
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.	Uncategorized
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.	Uncategorized
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.	Uncategorized
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.	Uncategorized
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.	Uncategorized
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.	Uncategorized
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.	Uncategorized

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