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Frequently Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
- Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
- Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
- The commercial world is very frequently put into confusion by the bankruptcy of merchants, that assumed the splendour of wealth only to obtain the privilege…
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