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Might Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given…
- He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar…
- The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
- Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
- I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons…
- We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find…
- It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and…
- Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to…
- Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted…
- It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
- Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
- The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day…
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
- In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck
- As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in… — Bono
- We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they… — C.S. Lewis