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Powers Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
- 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…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what…
- While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
- 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…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
- While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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