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Least Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- 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…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
- 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…
- Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his…
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