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Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — Samuel Johnson

1709–1784 England

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Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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!

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.
With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Johnson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.