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Use Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to…
- To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be…
- The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
- 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…
- Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
- [W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
- Apologies are seldom of any use.
- Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man,…
- These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know…
- Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at…
- Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign…
- It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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