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Over Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- 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…
- I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books, as a race…
- Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied…
- I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and…
- A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.
- All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
- Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in…
- The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed…
- 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.
- Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- 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…
- The triumph of hope over experience.
- 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…
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the… — Frederick Lenz
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius