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Degree Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
- It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
- In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
- There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
- Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to…
- Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to…
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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