Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel JohnsonYour work is both good and original but the part which is original is not good and the part which is good is not original!
Samuel JohnsonIf the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure. Life may be lengthened by care, though death cannot be ultimately defeated: tongues, like governments, have a natural tendency to degeneration; we have long preserved our constitution, let us make some struggles for our language.
Samuel JohnsonIs not a patron my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Samuel JohnsonEvery author does not write for every reader
Samuel JohnsonI can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.
Samuel JohnsonTags: transcendence desire
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel JohnsonTags: quotes
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Samuel JohnsonTags: language dictionaries
You must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; --from fear of its being abused.
Samuel JohnsonA wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel JohnsonTags: samuel-johnson forgive
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