Men quotes by Dr. Samuel Johnson

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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas."
"Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."
"No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it."
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a"
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."
"Learn that the present hour alone is man's."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair."
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
"As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise."
"An intellectual improvement arises from leisure."
"I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am."
"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."
"Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday."
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
"Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men."
"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."