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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Happiness - Page 2

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Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.

Happiness, Flower, Flames

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.452

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

Happiness, Next, Hours

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.251

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Happiness, Men, Wife

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Happiness, Equality, Egalitarianism

Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1776)

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Happiness

"The Idler: With Additional Essays".

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

Happiness, Laughter, Men

"Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

Happiness, Pride, Power

Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.224

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Happiness, Men, Joy

John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

Happiness, Yield, Joy

Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.63

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Happiness, Lonely, Loneliness

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.458

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Happiness, Trying, Care

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Happiness, Spring, Mind

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

Happiness, Evil, Neglect

"The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D". Book by James Boswell, 1791.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.

Happiness, Kindness, Endure

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

Happiness, Real, Remembrance

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Happiness, Real, Men

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.317

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Happiness, Home, Wealth

1778 Remark,17 Apr. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Happiness, Reading, Mind

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.37

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.

Happiness, Life Is, Enough

Hester Lynch Piozzi, Samuel Johnson (1826). “Anecdotes of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. during the last twenty years of his life”, p.231

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Happiness, Evil, Doe

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.412

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

Happiness, Life Is, Periods

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.212

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

Happiness, Believe, Mind

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy] Poems. Rasselas, prince of Abissinia. Letters”, p.348

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Happiness, Men, Thinking

Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.240

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

Happiness, Hate, Real

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Happiness, Men, Would Be

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