Quotes by Samuel Johnson about Human imperfections

Samuel Johnson English author

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about human imperfections