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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
doom, drowsy, gluttony, inactive, laziness, tranquility
«If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
«Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.»
«It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they sometimes sudde»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
delightful, entertainment, expansion, gradual, latent, pregnant, seminal, trace
«There is nothing more fatal to a man whose business is to think than to have learned the art of regaling his mind with airy gratifications»
«A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fishing
| Keywords:
fishing, fishing pole, fish stick, hook, pole, poles, stick with
«It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, praised, shuttlecock, struck