About Samuel Johnson
1709 – 1784
English writer, critic and lexicographer, compiler of 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), whose conversation was recorded by James Boswell.
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“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
“Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.”
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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”