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Should Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- 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…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as…
- It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at…
- Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
- Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
- Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time…
- Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
- Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his…
- I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
- For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed…
- To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the…
- Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature;…
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