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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.»
«I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
allegorical, paintings, portrait, Show Me
«Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
reconcile, reconciles, reconciling, relations, sufficient
«I am willing to love all mankind, except an American»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
an American
«When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, performed, struck, transition, transitions, uncommon
«Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Mind,
Praise
| Keywords:
almost all, pleasing
«No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
almost all, anticipation, employed, fill up, recollection
«Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.»
«A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.»
«It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
examined, mortal, terrestrial, torch, torches
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