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Able Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or…
- I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
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