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«Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Doubt,
Juries and Judges,
Past
| Keywords:
conclusions, past times
«More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.»
«He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
anticipate, at liberty, companion, continuity, disjoin, disjoined, disjoins, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, motionless, outlives, retrace, sentiment, settled, suspended
«Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness»
«Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?»
«To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogant, excite, inflame, inflamed, inflames, malevolence, opposition, privilege
«Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, instituted, instituting, judging
«I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild of life, without any direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on the world to which I have little relation»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Loneliness
| Keywords:
breaking off, breaking point, break off, fixed, fixed point, Gazer, gloomiest, gloomy, point of view, solitary, The Wild, wanderer, wanderers
«To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship»
«How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Eyes,
Family,
Parents
| Keywords:
assertions, enforce
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