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Grow Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
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