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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Adversity | Keywords: beneficial, properly
«The future is purchased by the present»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Future | Keywords: purchased
«To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Art, Life, Opportunity | Keywords: catch, golden, improve
«Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.»
«We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.»
«The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.»
«Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Agriculture | Keywords: agriculture
«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.»
«Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: feed
«Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates»

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