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Half Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
- Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
- The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating…
- A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
- The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make…
- A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
- 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…
- What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so…
- I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness…
- 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 Half Quotes
- Whenever I miss you. I just close my eyes and I see your smiling face and half of my problems automatically get… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened. — Mark Twain
- These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with… — Stephen Crane
- I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. — Teresa of Avila
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. — Philip James Bailey