Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
More Quotes from Samuel Johnson:
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.Samuel Johnson
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Samuel Johnson
Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
Samuel Johnson
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
Samuel Johnson
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: History QuotesBased on Keywords: falsehoods, uncontradicted
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
Christopher Lasch
All great authors are seers.
George Henry Lewes