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Judging Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil…
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
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