Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson, often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single biographical work in the whole of literature," James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth18 September 1709
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right
Sir, I have two cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
Reason and truth will prevail at last
Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.
We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.
Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.
Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Their origin is commonly unknown; for the practice often continues when the cause has ceased, and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is in vain to conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.