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« Previous PageSamuel Johnson: Hide Poverty & Idleness
on Friday, June 10, 2016Samuel Johnson Money Quote saying our self-image depends on hiding our laziness from ourselves and being poor – the poverty that results – from others. Samuel Johnson said:
“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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Samuel Johnson: Want of Superfluities
on Thursday, June 9, 2016Samuel Johnson Money Quote saying in nature, only lack of necessities make us poor, but society names lack of the superfluous as poverty. Samuel Johnson said:
“Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities” — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson: Enjoyment Over Desire
on Monday, May 11, 2015Samuel Johnson Money Quotation saying there is a reliable equation to measure true wealth which divides pleasure by percentage of wants. Samuel Johnson said:
“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments” — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson on Business of Life
on Wednesday, September 24, 2014Samuel Johnson Money Quotation saying we have more to do that grow and hoard money, we also need to tend to feelings. Samuel Johnson said:
“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life” — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson on Burdens of Time
on Monday, February 11, 2013Samuel Johnson Money Quotation saying we control neither cash nor the clock and that weighs heavily on those who have too much of either one. Samuel Johnson said:
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use” — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson on Work as Distraction from Temptation
on Thursday, January 24, 2013Samuel Johnson Money Quotation saying we can be occupied with work for long periods of innocence while keeping us from trouble and strife. Samuel Johnson said:
“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money” — Samuel Johnson
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