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Ancient Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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,…
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- ...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…
- A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient…
- To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,…
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- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
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