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Ends Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
- 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…
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
- Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame
- The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power…
- The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his…
- A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
- From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm…
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do…
- 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…
- Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit…
- To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every…
- The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
- 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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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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