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«I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
attainment, comforts, commerce, endeared, endearing, for the most part, not able, purchased, remotely, tenderness
«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.»
«Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Conversation,
Questioning
| Keywords:
gentlemen, mode, questioning
«In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
bat, beetle, beetles, description, detract, detracting, detracts, General Idea, gloom, Macbeth, The Bat
«He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.»
«The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.»
«Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands»
«I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil»
«It is easy to talk of sitting at home contented, when others are seeing or making shows. But not to have been where it is supposed, and seldom supposed falsely, that all would go if they could; to be able to say nothing when everyone is talking; to have no opinion when everyone is judging; to hear exclamations of rapture without power to depress; to listen to falsehoods without right to contradict, is, after all, a state of temporary inferiority, in which the mind is rather hardened by stubbornness, than supported by fortitude. If the world be worth winning let us enjoy it, if it is to be despised let us despise it by conviction. But the world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contented, contradict, depress, despised, exclamation, falsehoods, falsely, fortitude, hardened, inferiority, judging, rapture, raptures, supported, talk of, talk show, temporary state, The Rapture
«The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety»
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