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Kind Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- 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…
- There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
- 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…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- 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…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without…
- That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem
- Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which…
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