Quote #98

The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

More from Samuel Johnson

  1. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
  2. His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
  3. Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the …
  4. It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
  5. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
  6. There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
  7. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
  8. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

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