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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Nobody will persist long in helping those who will not help themselves»
«Keep always in your mind, that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself»
«It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure»
«See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust»
«The man whose genius qualifies him for great undertakings must at least be content to learn from books the present state of human knowledge; that he may not ascribe to himself the invention of arts generally known; weary his attention with experime»
«Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings»
«If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickax, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, i»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
disproportion, incessantly, petty, pickax, sense impression, spade, spades, The single
«Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not know what is best and fittest, or because our knowledge is at the time of action not present to the mind»
«A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
by laws, interpose, interposed, interposing
«In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuracy, conciseness, pointed, sacrificed
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