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Advantage Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
- Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and…
- Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
- Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
- Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
- All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse,…
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