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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Credulity
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charged, justly, spontaneously, suspicious
«The great community of mankind is necessarily broken into smaller independent societies; these form distinct interests, which are too frequently opposed to each other, and which they who have entered into the league of particular governments falsely»
«There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful; Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome»
«To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
civil law, embarrass, legislative, multiplicity, wrecked
«Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Beauty
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overpower, overpowered, overpowering, resolutions, rigorous, roused, sensibility, subdued, The Firm
«The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Reputation
| Keywords:
blaze, blazed, blazes, blown, considered, lamps, names, perpetual, shine, socket, unconsumed
«The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.»
«The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends. Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much, who enters life with the expectation of finding many»
«The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.»
«The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endue it.»
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