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    Samuel Johnson

    Read through the most famous quotes from Samuel Johnson




    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

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    Exercise is labor without weariness. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #exercise #labor #weariness #without

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


    — Samuel Johnson

    #attention #memory #true #true art

    The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #distribution #memory #offices #two

    The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #duty #good #only #principles #strong

    There are charms made only for distant admiration. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #charms #distant #made #only

    Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #angry #attacks #belief #confidence #degree

    The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #contempt #excite #fortune #more #pity

    What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #ease #ever #first #hope #learn

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


    — Samuel Johnson

    #ever #first #must #nothing #objections






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    Did you know about Samuel Johnson?

    He soon contracted scrofula known at that time as the "King's Evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. Instead of writing the whole work himself he dictated to Hector who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections.

    After working as a teacher he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human WiSamuel Johnsons" and the play Irene. S.

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