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Best Things Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
- Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our…
- There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating…
- To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
- Men hate more steadily than they love; and if I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of…
- Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle