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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Happy Wednesday!
What progress might patience be quietly building in you?
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
#SamuelJohnson
Patience is progress in disguise. 🌱
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Or as #SamuelJohnson says, "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see."
— from #Boswell 's #LifeOfJohnson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. - Samuel Johnson
A quotation from **Samuel Johnson**
> Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
**Samuel Johnson** (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-09-23), _The Idler_ , No. 23
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[Original post on friendica.world]
"I have been dipping again into odd issues of Dr Johnson’s first magazine, The Rambler, which never fails to offer some worthwhile insight"
#PoetsCorner: @malcolmguite.bsky.social finds common sense from #SamuelJohnson for this social-media age 📱
"Seeking some solace and escape from this public psychodrama, I opened The Rambler at random, and dipped into issue number 68 from 10 November 1750. . ."
#PoetsCorner @malcolmguite.bsky.social finds common sense from #SamuelJohnson for this social-media age
Tuesday thought ...
#thoughtfortheday #thoughtfortheweek #writingaboutwriting #thoughtoftheday #thoughtoftheweek #SamuelJohnson
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Let Wilkes and Churchill rage no more,
Tho’ scarce provision, learning's good:
What can these hungries next explore,
Even Samuel Johnson loves our food.
—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “To Dr Samuel Johnson: Food for a New Edition of his Dictionary”
#poem #poetry #C18th #food #SamuelJohnson
"If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read."
#SamuelJohnson
"Have plenty of books around you, he advised Boswell, so that you can follow up the desire of the moment" […]
'If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.'
#SamuelJohnson
Interesting piece by Eleanor Parker
www.historytoday.com/archive/out-...
Spotted while editing #Wiktionary: “Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.” – #SamuelJohnson, “The Idler”, in “The Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette” (10 February 1759). @archive.org archive.org/details/sim_...
A portrait of Samuel Johnson.
On this day in 1784 Samuel Johnson passed away.
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #SamuelJohnson #Literature #Dictionary
"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
✒ English scholar and lexicographer #SamuelJohnson passed away #OTD 13 December 1784. #Literature
‘Samuel Johnson’ - author of the 'Dictionary of the English Language' (1755)
For the Washington Post 2008.
#TBT #SamuelJohnson #WashingtonPost #WAPO #Portrait #Dictionary #DictionaryOfTheEnglishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #Acrylics #Painting #Illustration
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
✒ #JamesBoswell, Scottish lawyer, diarist, and famous biographer of #SamuelJohnson, was #BOTD 29 October 1740. #Literature
#Poem of the week: "On the Death of Dr Robert Levet" by #SamuelJohnson
An #elegy to the #poet’s personal physician is full of vivid detail delivered with infectious warmth
#Poetry #Literature
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- #SamuelJohnson
Guess Alex Jones will be forced to make a desperate run at the American presidency himself, then. The highest office is the new last refuge of the biggest scoundrels. #SamuelJohnson #TheEndIsNear
#OTD in 1709 Samuel Johnson was born. Henry Austen and James Edward Austen-Leigh asserted that Johnson was Austen’s “favourite author in prose”. In her letters she referred to him as ‘my dear Mr Johnson’.
#janeausten #janeaustensummerprogram #samueljohnson #englishliterature
A portrait of Samuel Johnson, underneath the words "Legacy Library."
Today is the birthday of Samuel Johnson, the 18th-century English writer and critic whose work has been so influential in the literary world. His library has been cataloged on LibraryThing as one of our Legacy Libraries. #SamuelJohnson #💙📚 #Booksky
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
#SamuelJohnson
#Brighton #Quote #quoteoftheday
#Sussex #LGBTQ #Queer
#Lovewins
On this day in 1709 Samuel Johnson was born.
His 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755) took nine years to complete and was the most extensive dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary came along.
#OnThisDay #BookSky #Dictionary #SamuelJohnson #History
Roman emperor Trajan (53 CE), #SamuelJohnson (1709), Justinus Kerner (1786), John Diefenbaker (1895), Agnes De Mille (1905), Greta Garbo (1905), Robert Blake (1933), Frankie Avalon [Francis Avallone] (1940), Ben Carson (1951), Chris Hedges (1956) & Anna Netrebko (1971) were born #OnThisDay...
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/samuel...
📖 #SamuelJohnson, English scholar, author, poet, and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language) was #BOTD 18 Sept 1709 #Literature
#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #SamuelJohnson
This quote (attributed but unverified) makes a strong case for clarity and precision in writing. The metaphor of a “bad marksman”—
Happy Wednesday!
Which small consistent effort today will build tomorrow’s strength?
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
#SamuelJohnson
Steadiness compounds—every effort counts. 💪
#WednesdayWisdom #DailyStrength #VargasAndVargasInsurance #DorchesterMA #NeponsetRiver
