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Himself Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from…
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
- Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
- He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
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- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
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