Samuel Johnson Quotes About Sunshine

• He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sunshine, Shade, Brightness

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.240

• 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

• Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sunshine, Clouds, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the British Poets: In Four Volumes”, p.56

• Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Hope, Sunshine

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.299, Princeton University Press

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