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Dogs have not the power of co...

Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The mind is refrigerated by i...

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Moderation is commonly firm, ...

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To set the mind above the app...

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Sir, as a man advances in lif...

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Treating your adversary with ...

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Levellers wish to level down ...

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Life is surely given us for h...

Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no value but because it has been forgotten.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Mutual cowardice keeps us in ...

Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Every man speaks and writes w...

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

All censure of a man's self i...

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The belief of immortality is ...

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Piety practiced in solitude, ...

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Great abilities are not requi...

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There is not, perhaps, to a m...

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Madam, before you flatter a m...

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

I am not able to instruct you...

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The natural progress of the w...

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To see helpless infancy stret...

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Other things may be seized by...

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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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....