Quotes of Johnson - somelinesforyou

“ One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read. ”

- Johnson

“ Judgment is forced upon us by experience. ”

- Johnson

“ No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. ”

- Johnson

“ One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. ”

- Johnson

“ No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. ”

- Johnson

“ No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. ”

- Johnson

“ He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ”

- Johnson

“ No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves. ”

- Johnson

“ To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy. ”

- Johnson

“ When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. ”

- Johnson

“ When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. ”

- Johnson

“ There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. ”

- Johnson

“ To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy. ”

- Johnson

“ When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others. ”

- Johnson

“ When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. ”

- Johnson

“ Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ”

- Johnson

“ Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ”

- Johnson

“ If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. ”

- Johnson

“ The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. ”

- Johnson

“ The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. ”

- Johnson

“ He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ”

- Johnson

“ When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. ”

- Johnson

“ Judgment is forced upon us by experience. ”

- Johnson

“ The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things — the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. ”

- Johnson

“ Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it. ”

- Johnson

“ When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away. ”

- Johnson

“ He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ”

- Johnson

“ He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. ”

- Johnson

“ The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things. ”

- Johnson

“ One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. ”

- Johnson
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