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Sentiments Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments....
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
- Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not…
- As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The…
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and…
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