“Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]”
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“There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]”
“Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.”
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“When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy.”
“The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
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“Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.”
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: the vanity of human wished: The History of Solÿman and Almena by John Langhorne
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“It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.”