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    Samuel Johnson

    Read through the most famous quotes from Samuel Johnson




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


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life

    Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #dreadful #integrity #knowledge #useless #weak

    Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life

    It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #inspirational

    What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #ease #life

    This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #wine #words #life

    The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #writing #life

    A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #life

    Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #gladness #inspirational #surprise #inspirational

    Hell is paved with good intentions. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #good-intentions #hell #intentions #life






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    Did you know about Samuel Johnson?

    He soon contracted scrofula known at that time as the "King's Evil" because it was thought royalty could cure it. Instead of writing the whole work himself he dictated to Hector who then took the copy to the printer and made any corrections.

    After working as a teacher he moved to London where he began to write for The Gentleman's Magazine. His early works include the biography The Life of Richard Savage the poems "London" and "The Vanity of Human WiSamuel Johnsons" and the play Irene. S.

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