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Things Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and…
- Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.
- Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
- There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of…
- The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
- What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- 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.
- As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
- About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
- 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;…
- Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted…
- It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the…
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