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States Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
- There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this…
- I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would…
- It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives…
- Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason…
- Such is the state of every age, every sex, and every condition: all have their cares, either from nature or from folly; and whoever, therefore,…
- 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…
- Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for…
- In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever…
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind;…
- To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity,…
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
- There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of…
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
- London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the…
- Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
- It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of…
- Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
- Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made…
- Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur