No man was ever great by imitation.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
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. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas. . .Samuel Johnson
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
Samuel Johnson
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.
Samuel Johnson
Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Samuel Johnson
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
'Lexicographer, n.' A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
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