Quote by Samuel Johnson
Language is the dress of thought. - Samuel Johnson

Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Idleness
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing
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Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. – Samuel Johnson

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Other Quotes from
Language
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The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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Language

Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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Language

He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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Language

I like the word “indolence.” It makes my laziness seem classy. – Bern Williams

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Language

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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Soul

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. – Abraham Kuyper

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Faith

Im learning a lot about the culture of weight loss. I didnt know there were bloggers out there who were proud to be fat. – Mick Cornett

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Learning

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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Language