Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel JohnsonA man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
Samuel JohnsonIt has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: happiness
All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: self-deprecation-praise-self
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel JohnsonPoetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: truth poetry pleasure symbiosis
I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.
Samuel JohnsonThe pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Samuel JohnsonStichwörter: shakespeare-criticism
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
Samuel JohnsonEvery state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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