English - Author | September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
TruthArtPoetryPleasureUniting
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
LiveRichBetterDieThan
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
MenTogetherPeopleTrueTwo People
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
LifeManTiredYouFindLondon
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
PerformanceDesignEasyProveThings
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
ManCarePovertyHidePoorIdle
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
LifeManDrunkNobodyWriteEat
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
MusicThinkI ThinkLeastNoises
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
ThinkYouStrikeMeetOverOut
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.
OpportunityCourageYouOthersMay
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
ReflectionManDoneMightMostHe
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
BedGoingThinksBeforeTwelve
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