6 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about judging
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Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.
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For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
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Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
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Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
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