Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Samuel Johnson

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Change Progress

Author

Samuel Johnson

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A Dictionary of the English Language

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English

Time

1755 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Writer

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Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language, introduction by Johnson. Consortium, 1755.

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Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language. 1755. Penguin Classics; Reprint Edition, 2007.

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Another quote by Samuel Johnson

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson, by James Boswell

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Rhetoric
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Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell
Source
Life of Samuel Johnson
Genre
Biography
Language
English
Time
1791 1790s 18th century
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Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell. Volume 1. c. 1791.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson. Written by James Boswell. Edited by Christopher Hibbert. Penguin Classics, 1979.

Another quote from the 1750s

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Inevitability of death

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Thomas Gray
Source
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1751 1750s 18th century
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Citation

Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Robert Dodsley, 1751, I. 36.

Another quote about Progress

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of the Seven Gables

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Theory of progress Progress
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Holgrave

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source
The House of the Seven Gables
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1851 1850s 19th century
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables. Second Edition. Edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 20.

Another quote from Age of Enlightenment

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Voltaire

Candide

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Problem of evil

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Voltaire
Source
Candide
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Question
Language
French
Time
1759 1750s 18th century
Era
Age of Enlightenment
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Original Citation

Voltaire. Candide. Cramer, 1759, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Voltaire. Candide. Translated by Robert M. Adams. Edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Co., 2016, ch. 6.