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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Humanity

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We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.

Humanity, Desire, Pleasure

Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.183, Univ of California Press

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

Powerful, Hands, Humanity

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.127

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Perfection, Humanity, Religion

Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772”, p.269, Princeton University Press

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Birthday, Humanity, Care

Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.75, Princeton University Press

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

Men, Giving, Humanity

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

Philosophy, Small Numbers, Humanity

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.110

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Office, Humanity, Thousand

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.469

Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

Eye, Men, Humanity

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.267

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Men, Humanity, Faults

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.33

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.

Envy, Humanity, Would Be

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson...”, p.73

Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its uneasiness, which those who do not feel them will not commiserate. An event which spreads distraction over half the commercial world, assembles the trading companies in councils and committees, and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers, is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference.

Class, Humanity, Half

Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.200

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Law, Humanity, Existence

Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.396

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

Sunshine, Clouds, Humanity

Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes”, p.56

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

Pain, Men, Humanity

Samuel Johnson (1823). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.203

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

Humanity, Universal, Accidents

Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.368

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

Country, Sleep, Humanity

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

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