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General Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not…
- 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…
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- 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…
- All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from…
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but…
- In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.
- London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
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- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
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- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
- Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. — John Adams