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Particular Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which…
- 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…
- 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…
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
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