A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.Samuel Johnson
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Samuel Johnson
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
Samuel Johnson
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings
Samuel Johnson
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