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His Life Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in…
- Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
- That man (Lord Lyttelton) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him
- Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot…
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- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is… — Teresa of Avila
- Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. — Lucille Ball
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie
- Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought… — Bruce Barton
- Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a… — Bruce Barton
- The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on… — Joseph Addison
- The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his… — Leonard Bernstein
- At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before… — Annie Besant
- We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. — Aeschylus
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He… — David Bowie