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Employments Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to…
- Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.
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- I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he… — Benjamin Franklin
- ...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow.… — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
- Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our… — William Buckland
- Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this… — George Washington
- This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have… — Lord Byron
- Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called… — Sterling W Sill
- Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana
- We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in… — Hannah More
- Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who… — Ovid
- Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a… — Samuel Johnson
- A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle