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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«A vow is a snare for sin»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Sin, Wishes | Keywords: snare, vow
«We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules»
«When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency»
«He that considers how soon he must close his life will find nothing of so much importance as to close it well; and will, therefore, look with indifference upon whatever is useless to that purpose»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: considers
«Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance»
«In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and if he is overcome, you share his guilt»
«Round numbers are always false»
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned»
«Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: anticipation