Samuel Johnson

(515 votes)   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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(492 votes)   Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(480 votes)   A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(477 votes)   The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(472 votes)   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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(469 votes)   He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(468 votes)   Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(447 votes)   There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(408 votes)   The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(404 votes)   A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(403 votes)   A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(379 votes)   Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Samuel Johnson
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(366 votes)   There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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1709-1784, British Author

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(354 votes)   Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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