The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
- Samuel Johnson
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
- Samuel Johnson
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
- Samuel Johnson
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
- Samuel Johnson
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- Samuel Johnson
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
- Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Samuel Johnson
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Samuel Johnson
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
- Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Samuel Johnson
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
- Samuel Johnson