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A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. - Letters (vol. I, p. 107) [Towns] The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. - Life of Cowley [Genius] Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. - Life of Cowley [Wit] The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. - Life of Milton [Government : Royalty] To be on no Church is dangerous. - Life of Milton [Religion] And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes. - London (l. 116) [Hell] To shake with laughter ere the jest they hear, To pour at will the counterfeited tear; And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. - London (l. 140) [Courtiers] Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. - London (l. 165) [Jesting : Proverbs] This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. - London (l. 175) [Worth] But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. - London (l. 177) [Bribery] Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man; Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. - London (l. 226) [Dueling] London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. - London (l. 93) [London] From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,-- Path, motive, guide, original. and end. - Motto to The Rambler (no. 7) [God] A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another. - Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson (p. 100) [Grass] "He was a very good hater." - Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson (p. 38) [Hatred] I like a good hater. - Mrs. Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson (p. 89) [Hatred] His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure th' Eternal Master found The single talent will employed. - On the Death of Mr. Robert Lovett [Virtue] Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. - Parody of the style of Thomas Warton [Poetry] For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. - Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson [Eating] The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Piozzi's Johnsoniana (154) [Traveling] This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. - Prayers and Meditations--Against Inquisitive and Perplexing Thoughts [World] Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. - Preface to Dictionary [Quotations] The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. - Preface to Dictionary [Authorship] I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. - Preface to his Dictionary [Words] Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. - Preface to his English Dictionary [Language] Displaying page 35 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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