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«What ills from beauty spring»
«Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding»
«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 e»
«That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona»
«When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am.»
«Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Society
| Keywords:
concession, concessions, reciprocal, subsist
«With regard to the sharpest and most melting sorrow, that which arises from the loss of those whom we have loved with tenderness, it may be observed, that friendship between mortals can be contracted on no other terms than that one must some time mou»
«Pleasure itself is not a vice»
«I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good»
«Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fame,
Time
| Keywords:
accidental, artificial
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