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Few Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
- 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…
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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