Samuel Johnson Quotes About Angels

• A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

  Samuel Johnson

  Angel, Littles, Fool

• Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

  Samuel Johnson

  Teacher, Angel, Men

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.294, Harvard University Press

• Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine,
  Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Angel, Peaceful

  "The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings".

• Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Peace, Sleep

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.88

• Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Angel, Pride, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Poems of Dr. Samuel Johnson. To which is Prefixed, a Life of the Author”, p.41

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