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Best Every Man Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- 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,…
- Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of…
- Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.
- Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines…
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
- 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…
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
- Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure…
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
- Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot…
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- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen
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- Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. — Lucille Ball
- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart,… — Henry Adams
- Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it… — James M. Barrie
- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest… — James M. Barrie
- It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s… — Bruce Barton
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every… — Henry Ward Beecher