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Art Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
- 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 true art of memory is the art of attention.
- 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…
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
- 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…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle