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  1. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
    -- Samuel Johnson (1775)

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  2. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
    -- Samuel Johnson (1775)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Knowledge

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  3. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
    -- Samuel Johnson (1775)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Knowledge

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  4. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
    -- Samuel Johnson (1775)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Knowledge

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  5. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
    -- Samuel Johnson (1775)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Knowledge

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  6. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

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  7. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

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  8. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

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  9. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/29381…

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  10. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
    -- Samuel Johnson

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  11. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

  12. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

  13. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

  14. Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Difficulty #HumanNature #Life

    #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

  15. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

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  16. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20598…

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  17. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20598…

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  18. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20598…

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  19. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20542…

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  20. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20542…

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  21. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20542…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #expectations #gladness #goodfortune #goodluck #happiness #pleasure #serendipity #surprise #unexpectedness

  22. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20542…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #expectations #gladness #goodfortune #goodluck #happiness #pleasure #serendipity #surprise #unexpectedness

  23. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/

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  24. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness

  25. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness

  26. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness

  27. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness

  28. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer than the hearer is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury which he cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-07-15), The Idler, No. 14

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  29. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer than the hearer is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury which he cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-07-15), The Idler, No. 14

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/82877…

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  30. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer than the hearer is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury which he cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-07-15), The Idler, No. 14

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/82877…

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  31. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    To put every man in possession of his own time, and rescue the day from the succession of usurpers, is beyond my power, and beyond my hope. Yet perhaps, some stop might be put to this unmerciful persecution, if all would seriously reflect, that whoever pays a visit that is not desired, or talks longer than the hearer is willing to attend, is guilty of an injury which he cannot repair, and takes away that which he cannot give.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-07-15), The Idler, No. 14

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/82877…

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  32. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
    -- Samuel Johnson

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  33. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Community

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  34. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Community

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  35. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Community

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  36. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
    -- Samuel Johnson

    #Wisdom #Quotes #SamuelJohnson #Community

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #LakeSantaFe #Florida

  37. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48

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  38. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

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  39. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

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  40. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2157/

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  41. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

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  42. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

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  43. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

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  44. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

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  45. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

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

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No. 30

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/5636/

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  46. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-10-07), The Idler, No. 25

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  47. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1758-10-07), The Idler, No. 25

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26659…

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