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World Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not…
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
- One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to…
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- 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…
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- 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…
- There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
- 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…
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not…
- The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication,…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.
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