Judgment is forced upon us by experience ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The …

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Judgment is forced upon us by experience ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.502
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The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour … ▶
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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry i … ▶
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)
It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). The Works of Samuel Joh … ▶

Judgment is forced upon us by experience ✨ Samuel Johnson (1804). The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works, p.502

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