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Small Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- 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,…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
- The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,…
- 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…
- The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
- Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before…
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses
- Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction
- The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
More Small Quotes
- Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. — William Shakespeare
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back.… — Drew Barrymore
- When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to… — James Belushi
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — William Makepeace Thackeray