Samuel Johnson

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#day #every #every day #i #i do

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conquered #i #will

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#am #any #attorney #deserves #i

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#form #give #government #guinea #half

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#blessings #choice #content #make #our choice

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#consider #done #man #might #mortifying

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #better #case #general #happy

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#equal #even #evident #half #hour