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Cannot Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
- Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
- He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
- Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
- Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .
- None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
- You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
- Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
- A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- 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…
- You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
- It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we…
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden