Poems List
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
The stage but echoes back the public voice. / The drama’s laws the drama’s patrons give, / For we that live to please, must please to live.
The triumph of hope over experience.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The vanity of being known to be entrusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
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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.