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#1

“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

tags: research, writing

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#2

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, and the Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, Vol. 4 of 5

tags: diligence, ease

115 likes

#3

“You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#4

“Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

tags: distance, memory, perspective

79 likes

#5

“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#6

“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

tags: thought, wine, words

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#7

“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#8

“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”
― Samuel Johnson , The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

tags: idleness, life, solitude

57 likes

#9

“A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol 2

56 likes

#10

“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#11

“a hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: autobiography, kettle, tea, teaism

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#12

“There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”
― Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny

tags: consumerism, economics, egotism, greed, luxury, materialism, selfishness, society

33 likes

#13

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

tags: frankness, life, truth

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#14

“Language is the dress of thought.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: inspirational, johnson, language, thought

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#15

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#16

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: imagination, reality, traveling, travelling

21 likes

#17

“I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.”
― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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#18

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
― Samuel Johnson, Selected Essays

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