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Best Little Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.
- This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in…
- Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
- Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than…
- There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
- I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.
- Little people do not wear well under either extremes of fortune
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I…
- I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
- 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…
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
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