We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
-Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Quotes – There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern..
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Courage is the greatest of all virtues..
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have..
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth..
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance..
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless..
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – There is nothing..
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts..
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil..
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
-Samuel Johnson