01c. 1746 ADCommerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
02c. 1746 ADContempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
04c. 1746 ADDeceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
05c. 1746 ADDepend upon it, if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
06c. 1746 ADEach change of many-colour'd life he drew, / Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
07c. 1746 ADEnvy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
08c. 1746 ADEvery desire is a viper in the bosom, who, when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
10c. 1746 ADEvery man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
11c. 1746 ADEvery period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
12c. 1746 ADFame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
14c. 1746 ADFew things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
15c. 1746 ADGluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
16c. 1746 ADGood and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
18c. 1746 ADHe does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
19c. 1746 ADHe left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a tale.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
21c. 1746 ADHe that claims, either in himself or for another, the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
22c. 1746 ADHe that lives must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
23c. 1746 ADHe that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
24c. 1746 ADHe that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
