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Littles Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
- That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while.…
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
- Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
- Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the…
- No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
- There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of…
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is…
- The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little…
- Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
- Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets…
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
- Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
More Littles Quotes
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