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Task Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they…
- 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…
- Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts…
- Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
- To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited…
- Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his…
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