Samuel Johnson Quotes about Heart
How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)
Lines added to Oliver Goldsmith's The Traveller (1764)
Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.102
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.256
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “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.135
Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.22
Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.
William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1805). “Preface”, p.32
Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret. Dorset. Stepney. J. Phillips. Walsh. Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison. Hughes. Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire”, p.248
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: with Murphy's essay”, p.97
Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.216
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.271
Samuel Johnson (1865). “Hymns of the Spirit”, p.436
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.1
Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.221
Samuel Johnson (1804). “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.222