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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.»
«Love is only one of many passions.»
«Seeing Scotland, Madam, is only seeing a worse England.»
«A tree might be a show in Scotland as a horse in Venice»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Scotland, Venice
«I'll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities»
«Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Suspicion | Keywords: suspicion, suspicious
«The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place»
«I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Words
«They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present»
«To push advantages too far is neither generous nor just»