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Easily Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- 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…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory,…
- A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply
- In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or…
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