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"Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Perspective
"A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Piety
"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Pleasure
"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Portraits
"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Poverty and The Poor
"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."
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Samuel Johnson
Category:
Praise
"Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Pride
"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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Quotations
"The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Reputation
"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."
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Category:
Retirement
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