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Long 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…
- Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
- It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,…
- No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
- No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
- The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
- Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
- He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
- I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that…
- In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or…
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