There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

The triumph of hope over experience

The triumph of hope over experience

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently...

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of...

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of...

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of...

Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of...

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the...

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to...

Round numbers are always false

Round numbers are always false

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of...

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two...

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.