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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Sir, we are a nest of singing birds»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: People
«The endearing elegance of female friendship.»
«Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.»
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize»
«Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.»
«I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.»
«Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.»
«Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London.»
«To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Difficulty, Mankind | Keywords: felicity
«A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: piety, pious