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“All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.”

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Samuel Johnson

April 15, 1778, p. 393
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.”

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Samuel Johnson

Prayers and Meditations, No. 1770 (1785)

“He that thinks with more extent than another will want words of larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?
Yet vanity inclines us to find faults any where rather than in ourselves. He that reads and grows no wiser, seldom suspects his own deficiency; but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood?”

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Samuel Johnson The Idler

No. 70 (August 18, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)

“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 43 (14 August 1750)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character [as an author], he deserved to have his merit handsomely allowed.”

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Samuel Johnson

May 1781
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“Here closed in death th' attentive eyes
That saw the manners in the face.”

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Samuel Johnson

Epitaph on Hogarth (1786)

“Why, Sir, it is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them.”

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Samuel Johnson

Feb. 15, 1766, p. 145
Said of Rousseau and Voltaire
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

“Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess.”

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Samuel Johnson

May 9, 1778, p. 409
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

“He was a very good hater.”

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Samuel Johnson

Zdroj: Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson (1786), p. 83

“Wretched un-idea'd girls.”

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Samuel Johnson

1752
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)

“I refute it thus.”

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Samuel Johnson

August 6, 1763, p. 134
Said as he kicked a stone, speaking of Berkeley's "ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter".
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I

“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.”

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Samuel Johnson kniha A Dictionary of the English Language

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Preface http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/preface.html
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

“Enlarge my life with multitude of days!”

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In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays:
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.
Zdroj: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 255

“The change of religion in Scotland, eager and vehement as it was, raised an epidemical enthusiasm, compounded of sullen scrupulousness and warlike ferocity, which, in a people whom idleness resigned to their own thoughts, and who conversing only with each other, suffered no dilution of their zeal from the gradual influx of new opinions, was long transmitted in its full strength from the old to the young, but by trade and intercourse with England, is now visibly abating, and giving way too fast to their laxity of practice and indifference of opinion, in which men, not sufficiently instructed to find the middle point, too easily shelter themselves from rigour and constraint.”

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Samuel Johnson kniha A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

p. 8. https://books.google.com/books?id=-6JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)

“Of the proportion, which the product of any region bears to the people, an estimate is commonly made according to the pecuniary price of the necessities of life; which is never certain, because it supposes what is far from truth, that the value of money is always the same, and so measures an unknown quantity by an uncertain standard. It is competent enough when the markets of the same country, at different times, and those times not too distant, are to be compared; but of very little use for the purpose of making one nation acquainted with the state of another.”

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Samuel Johnson kniha A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

pp. 366-367. https://books.google.com/books?id=-6JfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA366
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775)

“Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.”

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Samuel Johnson

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

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Samuel Johnson The Rambler

No. 68 (10 November 1750)
The Rambler (1750–1752)

“[S]uch is the delight of mental superiority, that none on whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.”

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Samuel Johnson

The Rambler, No. 150 (Sat 24 Aug 1751). http://www.yalejohnson.com/frontend/sda_viewer?n=106855 See also The Yale Book of Quotations, Samuel Johnson 3 (2006)