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Many Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man…
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of…
- Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
- We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown…
- Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
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- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda
- There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. — Jane Austen