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Samuel Johnson
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The chains of ___ are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak ___, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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To be happy ___ is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Great works are performed not by strength, but ___.
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Kindness is in our power, even when ___ is not.
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What is written without ___ is in general read without pleasure.
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___ without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without ___ is dangerous and dreadful.
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Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental ___.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from ___ to ___.
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Quotes
Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Samuel Johnson?
→ What goes up must come down.
→ Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
→ First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
→ All theory is against the freedom of the will. All experience for it.
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Pick the quote attributed to Samuel Johnson.
→ We only part to meet again.
→ Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.
→ Great necessities call out great virtues.
→ Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
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Select the quotation attributed to Samuel Johnson.
→ It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.
→ We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
→ It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
→ It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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One of these may be attributed to Samuel Johnson. Which one?
→ My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
→ It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
→ Much learning does not teach understanding.
→ Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
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Which one of these belongs to Samuel Johnson?
→ Respect yourself and others will respect you.
→ Don’t think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.
→ If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
→ He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Samuel Johnson?
→ All things are difficult before they are easy.
→ Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
→ A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
→ There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Samuel Johnson.
→ Happiness depends upon ourselves.
→ Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
→ Much learning does not teach understanding.
→ Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Samuel Johnson. Which one?
→ There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
→ No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
→ Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
→ Life decreases in direct proportion to the force of desire.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Samuel Johnson?
→ All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
→ Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
→ One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
→ You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Samuel Johnson.
→ Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
→ A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
→ If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
→ Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Looks like Samuel Johnson is the author of one of these.
→ I dwell in possibility.
→ Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
→ That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.
→ Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Samuel Johnson.
→ Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
→ Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
→ To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
→ He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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Which one should be attributed to Samuel Johnson?
→ I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
→ The shortest answer is doing.
→ Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
→ Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Samuel Johnson?
→ When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
→ An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
→ We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
→ Good things, when short, are twice as good.
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Select the quote belonging to Samuel Johnson.
→ All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
→ All theory is against the freedom of the will. All experience for it.
→ A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.
→ When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Samuel Johnson.
→ Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
→ No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
→ Round numbers are always false.
→ When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Samuel Johnson.
→ Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
→ I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
→ Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
→ What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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