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Own Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- 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…
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
- 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…
- It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- 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…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own…
- The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener…
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