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Greatest Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of…
- One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he falls.
- Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
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