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Rather Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- 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…
- The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the…
- Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie…
- Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for…
- Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
- They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than the restlessness of…
- Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong…
- Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and…
- A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told.
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
- I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world
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