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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
animated, animates, deceived, entangle, entangled, entangling, fallacies, motives, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, prompted, prompting, seduced
«Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.»
«Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
England, grain, horses, people of England, Scotland, supports
«All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance»
«A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still»
«There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advanced, ingratiating, supposition, unwillingly
«In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, applied, avoided, complaints, evils, impatience, properly, remedy, remove, wastes
«Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.»
«The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Dependence,
Poverty
| Keywords:
consequence, dependence
«Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote»
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