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Most Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
- The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
- Suspicion is most often useless pain.
- They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious…
- Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
- Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- 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…
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
- Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and…
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
- 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…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
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