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Thinking 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.
- He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
- 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…
- You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,…
- 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…
- His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
- Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- He that never thinks can never be wise.
- 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.…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- 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.
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