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«A vow is a snare for sin»
«We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Action
| Keywords:
benefactors, contracts, fall into, justly, numbered, remembered
«When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilities, civility, decency, Return to, The Forms, violated
«He that considers how soon he must close his life will find nothing of so much importance as to close it well; and will, therefore, look with indifference upon whatever is useless to that purpose»
«Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance»
«In so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and if he is overcome, you share his guilt»
«Round numbers are always false»
«No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned»
«Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Benevolence
| Keywords:
benevolence, mingled, motive
«Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change; the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again»
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