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Principles Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the…
- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
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