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Made Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
- Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason…
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.
- It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those…
- As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer.…
- 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…
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the lord chancellor, upon a due…
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