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Different Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- 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…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- 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…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
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