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Observation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- 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…
- From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure…
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
- Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded…
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