There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
-Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson Quotes – He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage..
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge..
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
-Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes – We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found..
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
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