Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts f >>

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of >>

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American. >>

Quotations about Fear

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. >>

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. >>

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. >>

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel