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Men Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
- Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
- No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of…
- No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.
- In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
- There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
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