Samuel Johnson Quotes About Energy

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  Samuel Johnson

  Good Morning, Lying, Sunshine

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.401

• Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Energy, Genius

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.169

• I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Energy, Environment

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 Apr. 1778)

• Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Quality, Energy, Genius

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Cunningham, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay (1861). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets”, p.322

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