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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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contradict, contribute, describes, differs, likewise, opposition, raises, resentment, soften
«The insolence of wealth will creep out»
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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contrivance, contrivances, drowned, jail, sailor
«Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history»
«Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.»
«Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
compounded, derives, permanence, tenderness
«Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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amusements, composition, delightful, diligence, dragged, for the most part, resolution, steady
«Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.»
«Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.»
«Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.»
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