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    Samuel Johnson

    Read through the most famous quotes from Samuel Johnson




    Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #another #difficulties #forming #gratified #higher

    Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #be happy #better #better way #children #find

    Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #himself #i #i do #makes #man

    Actions are visible, though motives are secret. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #motives #secret #though #visible

    It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #always #eye #know #may #never

    The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #chains #felt #habit #strong #too

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


    — Samuel Johnson

    #folly #keep #others #secret #wisdom

    What is easy is seldom excellent. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #excellent #seldom

    To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #great #love #self #to love

    You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ↗


    — Samuel Johnson

    #know #me #sharper #silence #sword






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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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