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Samuel Johnson Quotes
«Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
advancement, ridicule, vilified, vilifies, vilify
«Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science»
«Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality: they discourse like angels, but they live like men»
«As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
disused, innovate, innovating, popular opinion
«There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
blanks, lottery, mocked, multitudes
