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Human Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human…
- 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…
- Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
- Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
- 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…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
- Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
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