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Values Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
- Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you…
- Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay…
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money.…
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
- The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by…
- When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
- As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
- Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no…
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In…
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of…
- A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in…
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
- Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
- Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural… — David Attenborough