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Influence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
- 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…
- No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide…
- Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
- Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
- Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.
- The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence of…
- Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
- Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
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