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"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Adversity
"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Age and Aging
"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Approval
"They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Bachelor
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Books and Reading
"Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Calamity
"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. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Change
"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Complaints and Complaining
"Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Concentration
"The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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