Quote #95
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
More from Samuel Johnson
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the …
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- He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.
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- The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
- The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick;…
- His [David Garrick's] death has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.