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Much 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…
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
- You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when…
- 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.…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- 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…
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
- Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
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