9 Quotes by Samuel Johnson about mind




  • Author Samuel Johnson
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    To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue.

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    Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

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    If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur.

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    Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

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    A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

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    But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.

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