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«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
«A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
exposed, factions, revolutions, torn
«Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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breast, conscious, degrades, guilt, harbored, harbors, intimidates, intimidating
«My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o»
«Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.»
«Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.»
«He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Satisfaction
| Keywords:
endeavour, hereafter, particle
«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, crimes, deceit, distinctions, endear, endeared, endearing, endears, gradual, of our own, palliate, palliated, palliating, self-deceit, shocked, wickedness
«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.»
«Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.»
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