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True Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to…
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A…
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
- 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…
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.
- That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while.…
- What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let…
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- 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;…
- Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself…
- In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen…
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred…
- We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
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