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Seldom Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
- Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
- Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- 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…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared…
- Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
- The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth…
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
- Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
- Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
- It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
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- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
- Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found… — Charles Spurgeon
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the… — Samuel Johnson
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson
- If one considers more than need on how others feel, it is probable that in their past someone was seldom pleased with… — Senoraroy
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz