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Whom Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- 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…
- It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added,…
- 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…
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- 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…
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and…
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species…
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
- I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
- There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.
- 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…
- No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn…
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- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud