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Profession Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction,…
- It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
- Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape…
- Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
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- He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens… — Samuel Johnson
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession. — Elayne Boosler
- The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne
- [T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate… — Thomas Jefferson
- I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every… — Alexander Woollcott