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Them Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
- Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
- 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…
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
- 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…
- 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…
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