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Neither Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- 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…
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,…
- Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many…
- [W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same…
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover;…
- Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; forit supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics…
More Neither Quotes
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a… — Clive Bell
- Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is,… — Henry Steele Commager
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. — Alexander Graham Bell