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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, being, people

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about nothing

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about real estate, life

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 joy, equality, pleasure, happiness, human imperfections

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about change, wish, state, happiness, nothing, life

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about help, things, time, life

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about bad, idea

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about advice

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 flight, pleasure, hope, mind, objects, present, future, human imperfections, moment

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about flight, pleasure, hope, mind, human imperfections

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about writing, end, life

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about birthday, humanity

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about art, magic, attention, memory

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about memory

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about reality, imagination, thinking, use, things

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contempt, wealth

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, secret, being

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about world

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about dream, world, man