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Between Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- 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…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
- There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow.
- Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to…
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