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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Wise, Dream
In William Cooke 'Life of Samuel Foote' (1805) vol. 2, p. 154

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Past, Long
Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

Among the calamities of war may be numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Courage, Truth
The Idler no. 30 (11 Nov. 1758)

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

Samuel Johnson
Love, Life, Enthusiasm
1750-2 In The Rambler.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Friendship, Food
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.175

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Temptation, Wish
Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.257

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Inspirational, Life
'The Lives of the English Poets' (1779-81) 'Butler'

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Energy, Environment
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 Apr. 1778)

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Sorrow, Useless
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.107

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Friendship, Men
Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.267, Princeton University Press

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Love Life, Influence
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: Miscellaneous pieces”, p.107

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Self, Doe
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Samuel Johnson
Love, Hate, Men
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.146

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!

Samuel Johnson
Love, Peace, Sleep
Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.88

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