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Effect Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- 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 morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
- The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
- Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
- Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
- It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other…
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- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams
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