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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson
Country, Gratitude, Travel
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1828). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous: to which are Now Added Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies; Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor Dodd”, p.278

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Samuel Johnson
Gratitude, Home, Ambition
Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.431

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

Samuel Johnson
Gratitude, Cheer, People
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: including Boswell's Journal of a tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's diary of A journey into North Wales”, p.264

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson
Gratitude, Pain, Revenge
'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Samuel Johnson
Gratitude, Justice, Species
John Taylor, Samuel Johnson (1789). “Sermons on different subjects”, p.205

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

Samuel Johnson
Wise, Gratitude, Children
Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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