01c. 1746 ADHe that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
02c. 1746 AD"Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
03c. 1746 ADHope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
04c. 1746 ADHope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
05c. 1746 ADHuman life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
06c. 1746 ADHunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
08c. 1746 ADI wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
09c. 1746 ADIf it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire—an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
10c. 1746 ADIf once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved to the lowest and grossest temptation.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
11c. 1746 ADIf one were to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
12c. 1746 ADIf the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
13c. 1746 ADIf what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome if it make us wiser.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
14c. 1746 ADIf you anticipate your inheritance, you can at last inherit nothing.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
15c. 1746 ADIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
16c. 1746 ADIn a man's letters his soul lies naked; his letters are only the mirror of his breast.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
17c. 1746 ADIn every change there will be many that suffer real or imaginary grievances, and therefore many will be dissatisfied.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
18c. 1746 ADIn life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
19c. 1746 ADIt is a good thing to stay away till one's company is desired, but not so good to stay after it is desired.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
20c. 1746 ADIt is always necessary to show some good opinion of those whose good opinion we solicit.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
21c. 1746 ADIt is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
22c. 1746 ADIt is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common ways of mankind.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
23c. 1746 ADIt is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame than flame sinking into smoke.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
24c. 1746 ADIt is the condition of humanity to design what never will be done, and to hope what never will be attained.Samuel Johnson / quote ↗
