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«No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Appreciation
| Keywords:
delighting, fruits, scent, The Flowers
«The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment,
Joy
| Keywords:
completion, expecting, obtaining
«Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Envy,
Misery,
Pride
| Keywords:
advantages, delicate
«When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliations of every fault; we recollect a thousand endearments which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand dutie»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
carry off, endearment, endearments, excuses, favors, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, recollect, recollected, recollects
«Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty»
«Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Crusoe, Don, donning, Don Quixote, excepting, pilgrim, readers, Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, wished
«Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus»
«Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation»
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»
«The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege of trading with the stock of other men, and of contracting debts which nothing but lucky casu»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
assumed, bankruptcy, commercial, contracting, debts, merchants, splendour, stock, trading
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