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Letter "S" » 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
«Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.»
«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
«They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing-master»
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