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Piety is the only proper and ...

Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

We consider ourselves as defe...

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

A man has no more right to sa...

A man has no more right to say an uncivil thing than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The public pleasures of far t...

The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

To dread no eye and to suspec...

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The duties of religion, since...

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Our senses, our appetite, and...

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Reason elevates our thoughts ...

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Care that is once enter'd int...

Care that is once enter'd into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Medi...

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

No man reads a book of scienc...

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The business of life is to go...

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Many a man is mad in certain ...

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized a person of supposing himself obliged literally to pray continually; had the madness turned the opposite way, and the person thought it a crime ever to pray, it might not improbably have continued unobserved.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

Politeness is fictitious bene...

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

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The time will come to every h...

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

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How gloomy would be the mansi...

How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

He that has once concluded it...

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

The commodiousness of money i...

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.

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He that shall peruse the poli...

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

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Spite and ill-nature are amon...

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Samuel Johnson 2299 quotes

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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....