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Useful 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 most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
- I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
- Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
- That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
- It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
- The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
- Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when…
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