01c. 1746 ADNo man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
03c. 1746 ADNo power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
04c. 1746 ADNobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
05c. 1746 ADNothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
07c. 1746 ADNothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
09c. 1746 ADNumerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
10c. 1746 ADObjects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
12c. 1746 ADOf real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
13c. 1746 ADOn every stage the foes of peace attend / Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
15c. 1746 ADOne of the old man's miseries is that he cannot easily find a companion able to partake with him of the past.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
16c. 1746 ADOur esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
17c. 1746 ADOur minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
19c. 1746 ADParents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
20c. 1746 ADPleasure preconceived and preconcerted ends in disappointment; but disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
21c. 1746 ADPleasure which cannot be obtained but by unreasonable and unsuitable expense, must always end in pain.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
22c. 1746 ADPleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
23c. 1746 ADPoetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
24c. 1746 ADPour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
