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Proceeds Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
- The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
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- But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary. — Jonathan Swift
- But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;… — Francis Bacon
- Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith
- Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of… — David Miliband
- Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from… — Andrew Simms
- No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when,… — Baron de Montesquieu
- The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the… — Thomas Hobbes