Poems List
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.
Life protracted is protracted woe.
Long customs are not easily broken: he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain: and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves?
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Man is not weak, knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.
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Samuel Johnson (18 de setembro de 1709 - 13 de dezembro de 1784) foi um escritor inglês que se tornou um dos mais célebres intelectuais do seu tempo. Nascido em Lichfield, Staffordshire, lutou com problemas de saúde e financeiros durante grande parte da sua vida. A sua obra mais influente, 'A Dictionary of the English Language' (1755), foi um marco na lexicografia inglesa, definindo o vocabulário e a ortografia da língua. Johnson também produziu ensaios perspicazes, sermões, poemas e biografias, incluindo 'Lives of the Poets'. Foi uma figura central nos círculos literários de Londres, conhecido pela sua inteligência aguçada, conversação brilhante e opiniões firmes. A sua vida e obra foram imortalizadas na 'Life of Samuel Johnson' de James Boswell, uma das biografias mais importantes da literatura inglesa.