Author: Samuel Johnson

Quotes

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

- Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- 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

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.

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.

- Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

- Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

- Samuel Johnson

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

- Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

- Samuel Johnson

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

- Samuel Johnson

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