"A man used to vicissitudes is not easily…" — Samuel Johnson
"A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected."
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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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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
— C.S. Lewis
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
— C.S. Lewis
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember…
— John of Kronstadt
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to…
— Jim Courier
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same…
— Samuel Hoffenstein
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It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than…
— Thomas a Kempis
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Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I believe that no matter how many mistakes weÂ’ve made; how badly weÂ’ve really, really screwed up; how old, worn…
— Dave Pelzer
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you…
— Vin Diesel
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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.
— Alexander Pope
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Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes…
— C.S. Lewis
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