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Preserve Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness…
- Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
- That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
- Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a…
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when…
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- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not… — Francis Bacon
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
- The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their… — Joseph Addison
- For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. — Aeschylus
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
- How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life,… — Richard Burton
- Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? — David Byrne
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time,… — Thomas Carlyle
- The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes
- It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief,… — Chanakya