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Down Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
- Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
- Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
- The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
- Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom…
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
- Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
- As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the…
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