"A man finds in the productions of nature……" — Samuel Johnson
"A man finds in the productions of nature an inexhaustible stock of material on which he can employ himself, without any temptations to envy or malevolence, and has always a certain prospect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign author of the universe."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
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Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
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Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest…
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first…
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us…
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At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to…
— Richard Attenborough
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The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and…
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,
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As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them…
— Celia Thaxter
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Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and…
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Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism…
— Evelyn Underhill
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I study theology in the works of creation and find in it new reasons for adoring the creator.
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