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Approbation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
- Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as…
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- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.… — Joseph Addison
- There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps
- Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
- The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God… — Pope Benedict XVI
- If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my… — Thomas Jefferson
- Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
- We ask advice but we mean approbation. — Charles Caleb Colton