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Letter "S" » Samuel Johnson Quotes
«His (a player's) conversation usually threatened and announced more than it performed; that he fed you with a continual renovation of hope, to end in a constant succession of disappointment»
«This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false: its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted; he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admits, comply, complying, false belief, overrule, overruling, pernicious, predestination
«To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy»
«He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised»
«There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by»
«Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery»
«As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the enemy of mankind, that can choose to snatch, by violence and bloodshed, what gentler means can equally obtain»
«Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur»
«Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attempts, endeavors, forbear, forbearing, invigoration, timidity
«Knowledge was divided among the Scots, like bread in a besieged town, to every man a mouthful, to no man a bellyful»
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