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Perhaps Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
- Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
- There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.
- The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps,…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
- Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
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