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Lives Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- 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…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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