01c. 1746 ADIt is useless to deny with the tongue that which man gives credence to with the heart.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
03c. 1746 ADKeep always in your mind that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
05c. 1746 ADKnowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
06c. 1746 ADLabour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
07c. 1746 ADLabour, if it were not necessary for the existence, would be indispensable for the happiness, of man.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
08c. 1746 ADLaw teaches us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
11c. 1746 ADLet us endeavour to see things as they are, and then inquire whether we ought to complain.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
12c. 1746 ADLet us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
14c. 1746 ADLetters may be always made out of the books of the morning or talk of the evening.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
15c. 1746 ADLiberty is to the lowest rank of every nation little more than the choice of working or starving.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
18c. 1746 ADLife, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards happiness, though naturally slow, is made still slower by unnecessary labour.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
19c. 1746 ADLife is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
20c. 1746 ADLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
21c. 1746 ADLife protracted is protracted woe, / Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And shuts up all the passages of joy.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
22c. 1746 ADLife, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
23c. 1746 ADLive on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure—the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
24c. 1746 ADLong customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
