Dr. Samuel Johnson @Quoting_Johnson
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“To deliver examples to posterity, and to regulate the opinion of future times, is no slight or trivial undertaking." #writerslife
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"To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace." #criticism #writerslife
"He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger whom everyone has a right to attack." #criticism #writerslife
"I would not willingly interrupt the dream of harmless stupidity, or destroy the jest which makes its author laugh." ##criticism
"I should think it cruelty to crush an insect who had provoked me only by buzzing in my ear." amzn.to/1NYWthv #animalrights @peta
“There is indeed some tenderness due to living writers." amzn.to/1NYWthv #inspirationalquotes #writerslife #criticism
"If he consults his friends, he will probably find men who have more kindness than judgment or more fear to offend than desire to instruct."
"No man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided."
"Every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure." amzn.to/1NYWthv #writerslife #poetry
"The act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images." amzn.to/1NYWthv #writerslife
"We are seldom tiresome to ourselves." amzn.to/1NYWthv #inspirationalquotes #boringlife
"Bodies forced into motion, contrary to their tendency, pass more and more slowly through every successive interval of space." #physics
"He that is weary the first hour is more weary the second." amzn.to/1NYWthv #inspirationalquotes #writerslife
"Other faults are censured and forgotten, but the power of tediousness propagates itself." amzn.to/1NYWthv #boringwork #writerslife
"Negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousness pervades the whole." amzn.to/1NYWthv #boring #writerslife #criticism
"Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults." amzn.to/1NYWthv #inspirationalquotes #boring #writing #writerslife #criticism
"What was composed with great struggles of the mind we do not easily reject." amzn.to/1NYWthv #inspirationalquotes #writerslife
"What flows easily from the pen charms us because we read with pleasure that which flatters our opinion of our own powers." #writerslife
"Our juvenile compositions please us because they bring to our minds the remembrance of youth." amzn.to/1NYWthv #writing #juvenilia
"We are blinded in examining our own labours by innumerable prejudices." amzn.to/1NYWthv #criticism #selfcriticism
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