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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil»
«A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: ingratitude
«This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: lords, wits
«For my part, Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Religion | Keywords: Protestants
«Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: factions
«Example is always more efficacious than precept.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Example | Keywords: efficacious, precept
«Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right»
«Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him»
«They that enter into the world are too often treated with unreasonable rigor by those that were once as ignorant and heady as themselves; and distinction is not always made between the faults which require speedy and violent eradication, and those t»
«Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep»