Samuel Johnson Quotes About Dreams

• Your aspirations are your possibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Dream, Attitude

• Our aspirations are our possibilities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Soulmate, Wish

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Wise, Dream

  In William Cooke 'Life of Samuel Foote' (1805) vol. 2, p. 154

• In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Art, Philosophy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.167

• We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Marketing, Vat

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1781)

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Reality, Men

• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Dream, Home

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.310, Harvard University Press

• Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Real, Long

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