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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Cows] A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Ingratitude] A man may write at any time if he set himself doggedly to it. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Authorship] A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Reading] A man will turn over half a library to make one book. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Books] All this [wealth] excludes but one evil,--poverty. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Poverty] As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Traveling] Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Action] Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Ships] Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Liquor] Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Melancholy] Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Apparel] Fitted him to a T. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Proverbial Phrases] Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Idleness] Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Happiness] He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Stupidity] He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Manners] Hell is paved with good intentions. - quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson [Hell : Proverbs] I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Amusements] I am glad that he thanks God for anything. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Thankfulness] I have always said the first Whig was the Devil. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Politics] I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Argument] I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [World] I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Sleep] I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing." - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Zeal] Displaying page 32 of 37 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 [32] 33 34 35 36 37
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