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Live Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our…
- 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…
- Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did…
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For…
- Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in…
- No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
- I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
- The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives…
- When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
- It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
- 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…
- The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and friends.…
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda