01c. 1746 ADLove ends with hope: the sinking statesman's door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
02c. 1746 ADMagnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
04c. 1746 ADMake it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
05c. 1746 ADMake the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
06c. 1746 ADMan unconnected is at home everywhere, unless he may be said to be at home nowhere.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
07c. 1746 ADMan's history is little else than a narrative of designs that have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
08c. 1746 ADMany a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
09c. 1746 ADMarriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
10c. 1746 ADMemory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
11c. 1746 ADMen are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
12c. 1746 ADMen can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
13c. 1746 ADMen have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
16c. 1746 ADMiserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
17c. 1746 ADMost men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
19c. 1746 ADNew scenes impress new ideas, enrich the imagination, and enlarge the power of reason.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
20c. 1746 AD"No," a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
21c. 1746 ADNo man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
23c. 1746 ADNo man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
24c. 1746 ADNo man should think so highly of himself as to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
