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Want Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
- It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a…
- No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- 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…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted,…
- 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.
- Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
- 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.…
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
- If we consider the manner in which those who assume the office of directing the conduct of others execute their undertaking, it will not be…
- 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.…
- Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached…
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are…
- Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that…
- There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
- Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied…
- Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- 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,…
- Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
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