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Seeing Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.
- 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…
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets…
- We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
- By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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