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Some Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey…
- Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- 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…
- 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…
- But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the…
- The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some…
- 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 excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they…
- 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…
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