Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Contentment

13 quotes by Samuel Johnson about contentment

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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in...

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you...

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign...

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

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only...

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room...

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not -...

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

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You never find people laboring to convince you that you...

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

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