Quotes by Johnson, Samuel

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you thin >>

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Quotations about Piety

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Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert >>

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Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

Johnson, Samuel