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Danger Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Security will produce danger.
- We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and…
- A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has…
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
- It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
- No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
- Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon;…
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
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