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«As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law; that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles»
«Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him; and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive; for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the c»
«It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
infelicity, miseries, uninstructed
«This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd»
«If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle»
«Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
detain, detained, magnifying, restrain
«I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature»
«He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power»
«There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
impatient, impatient of, inferiority, recompense
«Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself»
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