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Nothing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
- If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is…
- A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
- 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…
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
- Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- 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…
- Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
- A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
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