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Great Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- No one ever became great by imitation.
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
- 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…
- The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
- The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
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