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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
predominate, predominates, predominating, withdraws
«It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
afflictive, encroach, encroached, encroaches, encroaching, encroach upon, encumbrance, performing arts
«Art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects; and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation»
«Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
languish, languished, languishes, policed, wretchedly
«Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob»
«The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of»