Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
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Samuel Johnson
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A Dictionary of the English Language: an Anthology
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Founded Chiefly Upon Boswell.
Life of Johnson, Vol 4
Life of Richard Savage
Lives of the poets: Milton
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare
Taxation No Tyranny
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
The Idler; Poems
The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Vol 2
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2
The Rambler
The Rambler, Vol. 4
Works of Samuel Johnson
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Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
As the Spanish proverb says 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
As the Spanish proverb says "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man because he has both enjoyments.
Being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
The future is purchased by the present.
If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand no doubt we should pity the state of his mind but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first and pity him afterwards.
Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say.