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Change is not made without in...

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In all evils which admit a re...

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Youth enters the world with v...

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that pursues fame with jus...

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Courage is a quality so neces...

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

In life's last scene what pro...

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!
From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

That kind of life is most hap...

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

All severity that does not te...

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

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There is less flogging in our...

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Philosophers there are who tr...

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To hear complaints with patie...

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To get a name can happen but ...

To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Unintelligible language is a ...

Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I do not care to speak ill of...

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

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It may be observed in general...

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

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In a Man's Letters you know, ...

In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is to be steadily inculcat...

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Oats. A grain, which in Engla...

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Where no man thinks himself u...

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I have already enjoyed too mu...

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....