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Good Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
- The trade of advertising is now so near to perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
- Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
- Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
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- If she didn't reply to any of your 20 texts, she probably doesn't have good cell service. Definitely don't stop texting her. — Nikhil Saluja
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle