"Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses……" — Samuel Johnson
"Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature."
—
Samuel Johnson
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Your aspirations are your possibilities.
-
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
-
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
-
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
-
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
-
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
-
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
-
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
-
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
-
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
-
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
-
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
See all 1,266 quotes by Samuel Johnson »
More Chief Quotes
This quote is filed under Chief Quotes,
one of 993 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
— Hannah Arendt
-
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
— Gaston Bachelard
-
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
— J. G. Ballard
-
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
-
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
— Alfred Adler
-
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
-
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
— Joe Biden
-
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
— Hugh Blair
-
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
— William Blake
-
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
-
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
See all 993 Chief Quotes »