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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
chancellor, Chancellors, characters, consideration, Marriages, Parties, the matter, without consideration
«Whoever thinks of going; to bed before ten o'clock is a scoundrel»
«No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance»
«I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.»
«When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
complaining, drive away, endeavoring, exert, gloom, publish, you-drive
«The business of a poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. He does not number the streaks of the tulip.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
appearances, examine, number the, remark, streak, streaked, streaks, tulip, tulips
«Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantages, enterprises, hazard, magnifies, magnifying, undertaken
«The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
prosecution, prosecutions, undertaking, vigorous
«To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
inscrutable, intricacies, intricacy, maze, mazes, pierced, The Maze
«It is, indeed, not easy to tell how far we may be blinded by the love of ourselves, when we reflect how much a secondary passion can cloud our judgment, and how few faults a man, in the first raptures of love, can discover in the person or conduct of»
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