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Failing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- 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…
- Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
- Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
- The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed…
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
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