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Generally Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.
- When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association…
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery,…
- Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
- It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
- Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes
- It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other…
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