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Once Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
- 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…
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- Nature never gives everything at once.
- Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
- Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest…
- Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and…
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
- Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.
- To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
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