Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasur >>

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. >>

If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, w >>

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Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast field >>

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the countr >>

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow. >>

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel