Author: Samuel Johnson

Quotes

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.

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.

- Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

- Samuel Johnson

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

- Samuel Johnson

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

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

- Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

- Samuel Johnson

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

- Samuel Johnson

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

- Samuel Johnson

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