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Comparison Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- 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…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without,…
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- The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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