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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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compare, disappointed, expectation, from time to time, instructive, liable, observation, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes.»
«Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.»
«It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any effect other than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Expectation
| Keywords:
cures, disappointed, disappointment, effect, exclamation, expectation, expects, other than, peevish, producing, sentence
«Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people»
«Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Excellence
| Keywords:
attained, department, departments, Department of, lesser, purchased, purchases, purchasing, The Purchase
«Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Admiration
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acquaintance, admiration, ceases
«To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquainted, audacity, incredulity, Refusing, stubborn
«The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another»
«Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.»
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