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Subject Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
- Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
- He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
- Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative…
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
- 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…
- I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is…
- The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last…
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its…
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