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New Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of…
- Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are…
- It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth…
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- 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…
- When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few…
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep…
- I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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