Samuel Johnson

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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