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Something Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has…
- Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- 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…
- 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…
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
- There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it…
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless…
- There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.
- 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…
- In a time of war the nation is always of one mind, eager to hear something good of themselves and ill of the enemy. At…
- It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
- The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
More Something Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle