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Makes Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
- Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!
- ...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…
- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes…
- Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
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