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Often Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;…
- 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…
- The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
- Suspicion is most often useless pain.
- It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,…
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.
- 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…
- Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money.…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
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