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Such Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
- Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered…
- 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,…
- Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures…
- How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as…
- 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…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
- Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- 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…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself…
- The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never…
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
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