Samuel Johnson

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#death #here #home #night #prepare

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#large #promise #soul

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#being #equal #evident #far #half

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#everything #made #many #may #necessity

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#desire #fancy #keep #life #motion

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forced #help #life #long #long life

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#authors #chief #every #glory #people

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#life #love #necessary #prosecution #undertaking

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#hope #human #human mind #mind #natural