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Before Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- 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…
- Men are most powerfully affected by those evils which themselves feel, or which appear before their own eyes.
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
- Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before…
- Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must…
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
- A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
- Was ever poet so trusted before?
- Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.
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