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The future is purchased by the...

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Pride is seldom delicate; it w...

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Prudence is an attitude that k...

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Don't think of retiring from t...

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Where secrecy or mystery begin...

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Slander is the revenge of a co...

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Conjecture as to things useful...

Conjecture as to things useful, is good; but conjecture as to what it would be useless to know, is very idle.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

There is nothing too little fo...

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A vow is a snare for sin....

A vow is a snare for sin.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He who has provoked the shaft ...

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Your manuscript is both good a...

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Much is due to those who first...

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

It is true that of far the gre...

It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

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

Though it is evident, that not...

Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The number of such as live wit...

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The specualtist, who is not co...

The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Knowledge is praised and desir...

Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To understand the works of cel...

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Persius has justly observed, t...

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

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...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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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....