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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Samuel Johnson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Subject:
Admire
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A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Subject:
Mankind
Pessimism
Human Nature
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Subject:
Life
Success
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Subject:
Reality
Imagination
Travel
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Subject:
Life
Community
Tolerance
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
Books
Library
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Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
Subject:
Humor
Truth
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.
Subject:
Fear
Evil
Emotions
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