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Causes Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
- He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
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- In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
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