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Set Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and…
- 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…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.
- Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
- Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his…
- A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
- Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than…
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