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Violence Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
- The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear,…
- He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as…
- As peace is the end of war, it is the end, likewise, of preparations for war; and he may be justly hunted down, as the…
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