Samuel Johnson Quotes About Judgement
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Judgment is forced upon us by experience
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He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.
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Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.
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Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
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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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