Samuel Johnson was an English author and poet who lived in the 18th century. He was a literary critic, biographer, and lexicographer, and is remembered for his influential works such as the Dictionary of the English Language and A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Johnson was a major figure in the Augustan Age of English literature. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Samuel Johnson on writing, life, love.
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson inspirational quote
Samuel Johnson Image Quotes
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. — Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
Nature never gives everything at once.
The true art of memory is the art of attention. — Samuel Johnson
Exercise is labor without weariness. — Samuel Johnson
The world is like a grand staircase. Some are going up and some are going down.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Samuel Johnson
The future is purchased by the present. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Short Quotes
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
The future is purchased by the present.
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Writing
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others — Samuel Johnson
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality. — Samuel Johnson
Allegories drawn to great length will always break. — Samuel Johnson
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — Samuel Johnson
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. — Samuel Johnson
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. — Samuel Johnson
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written. — Samuel Johnson
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. — Samuel Johnson
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson
To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Life
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. — Samuel Johnson
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship. — Samuel Johnson
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. — Samuel Johnson
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence. — Samuel Johnson
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. — Samuel Johnson
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre — Samuel Johnson
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson
The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. — Samuel Johnson
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Love
Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder. — Samuel Johnson
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. — Samuel Johnson
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. — Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. — Samuel Johnson
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson
You can never be wise unless you love reading. — Samuel Johnson
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love. — Samuel Johnson
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest — Samuel Johnson
A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal. — Samuel Johnson
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. — Samuel Johnson
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral. — Samuel Johnson
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread. — Samuel Johnson
Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. — Samuel Johnson
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. — Samuel Johnson
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. — Samuel Johnson
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science. — Samuel Johnson
All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Shakespeare
A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. — Samuel Johnson
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine. — Samuel Johnson
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence. — Samuel Johnson
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest. — Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. — Samuel Johnson
Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault. — Samuel Johnson
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Friendship
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. — Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage. — Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim. — Samuel Johnson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship. — Samuel Johnson
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. — Samuel Johnson
The endearing elegance of female friendship. — Samuel Johnson
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. — Samuel Johnson
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay. — Samuel Johnson
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both. — Samuel Johnson
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Marriage
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. — Samuel Johnson
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that. — Samuel Johnson
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. — Samuel Johnson
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman. — Samuel Johnson
The triumph of hope over experience. — Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due consideration of the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter. — Samuel Johnson
It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together. — Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Hope
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson
Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler. — Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. — Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. — Samuel Johnson
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library. — Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Samuel Johnson
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Literary
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. — Samuel Johnson
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. — Samuel Johnson
Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Mind
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. — Samuel Johnson
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit. — Samuel Johnson
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. — Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade. — Samuel Johnson
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue. — Samuel Johnson
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before. — Samuel Johnson
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue. — Samuel Johnson
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Happiness
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. — Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Samuel Johnson
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. — Samuel Johnson
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others — Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. — Samuel Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. — Samuel Johnson
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. — Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. — Samuel Johnson
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About World
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. — Samuel Johnson
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other. — Samuel Johnson
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world. — Samuel Johnson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. — Samuel Johnson
Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity. — Samuel Johnson
I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. — Samuel Johnson
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. — Samuel Johnson
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? — Samuel Johnson
Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Quotes About Pleasure
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it — Samuel Johnson
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security. — Samuel Johnson
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. — Samuel Johnson
Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression. — Samuel Johnson
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind. — Samuel Johnson
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? — Samuel Johnson
Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil. — Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. — Samuel Johnson
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. — Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. — Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson Famous Quotes And Sayings
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. — Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. — Samuel Johnson
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities; as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight. — Samuel Johnson
Exercise is labor without weariness. — Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. — Samuel Johnson
We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them. — Samuel Johnson
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action. — Samuel Johnson
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. — Samuel Johnson
The future is purchased by the present. — Samuel Johnson
The resolution of the combat is seldom equal to the vehemence of the charge. — Samuel Johnson
Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light. — Samuel Johnson
Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature. — Samuel Johnson
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow. — Samuel Johnson
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion. — Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed. — Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. — Samuel Johnson
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. — Samuel Johnson
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring. — Samuel Johnson
Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Samuel Johnson
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. — Samuel Johnson
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society. — Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. — Samuel Johnson
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. — Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. — Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. — Samuel Johnson
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. — Samuel Johnson
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. — Samuel Johnson
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. — Samuel Johnson
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. — Samuel Johnson
Knock the 't' off the 'can't.' — Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson
He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. — Samuel Johnson
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. — Samuel Johnson
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. — Samuel Johnson
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. — Samuel Johnson
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. — Samuel Johnson
Languages are the pedigree of nations. — Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. — Samuel Johnson
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense. — Samuel Johnson
I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth. — Samuel Johnson
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. — Samuel Johnson
Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled. — Samuel Johnson
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. — Samuel Johnson
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. — Samuel Johnson
It is better to live rich, than to die rich. — Samuel Johnson
No man was ever great by imitation. — Samuel Johnson
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. — Samuel Johnson
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed. — Samuel Johnson
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people. — Samuel Johnson
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. — Samuel Johnson
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson
I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. — Samuel Johnson
Suspicion is most often useless pain. — Samuel Johnson
Change is not made without inconvenience. — Samuel Johnson
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. — Samuel Johnson
From Bard, to Bard, the frigid Caution crept,
Till Declamation roar'd, while Passion slept. — Samuel Johnson
Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. — Samuel Johnson
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning. — Samuel Johnson
Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity. — Samuel Johnson
Whatever you have spend less. — Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought. — Samuel Johnson
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. — Samuel Johnson
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. — Samuel Johnson
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. — Samuel Johnson
Life Lessons by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson's life teaches us that hard work and dedication can pay off; he was able to achieve success despite his humble beginnings and lack of formal education.
His resilience and perseverance in the face of adversity can serve as an inspiration to us all; he never gave up on his dreams, even when faced with difficult circumstances.
Johnson also reminds us that our lives can be enriched by the pursuit of knowledge; he was a voracious reader and was able to achieve great things through his relentless curiosity.
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