Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate September 18, 1709

Zodiac Virgo

Location Lichfield, United Kingdom

Country England

Weight / 82 kg

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Samuel Johnson Quotes

Words are but the signs of ideas.

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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

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Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.

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The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

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To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

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