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Equal Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;…
- Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a…
- None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most…
- Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.
- So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall…
More Equal Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the… — Jacques Charles
- Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt
- I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension… — Benjamin Franklin
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell
- Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson