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Think Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
- I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he…
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
- Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or…
- If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
- It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money.…
- As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the…
- Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal.
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop
- I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
- You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the…
- Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
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