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Works Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
- 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…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their…
- If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not…
- I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
- Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
- We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works…
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on…
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