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Repeated Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
- The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the…
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