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Known Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.
- In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
- 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…
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- 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…
- Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the…
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;…
- This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
- The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
- Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something…
- The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that…
- Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
- It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
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- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
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