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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about duty, good, good luck

Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about city, man

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about admiration

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about age, olderness, power, sex, things

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about money, man

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gratitude, revenge, pain, pleasure

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about drinking, man, good, good luck

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about home, house, happiness, nothing, good, good luck, man, people

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, art, magic, nothing, things, man

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about prudence, reason, woman, thinking, nothing, life

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about life

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about poverty, man

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about gifts, name, things

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.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about hope, happiness

We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Synod of Cooks.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about kitchen

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about expectation, love

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about imagination, happiness, man