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Another Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
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