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May Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
- 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…
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied…
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human…
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
- We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more…
- 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,…
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
- It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt