"A man who is good enough to go……" — Samuel Johnson
"A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site.
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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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More Clergyman Quotes
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In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.
— George Carlin
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant…
— Bill Bryson
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or…
— Jane Austen
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
— Henry Fielding
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I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a…
— Charles Darwin
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Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or…
— Billy Graham
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Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.
— Unknown Author
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I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe…
— Nigella Lawson
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that…
— H. L. Mencken
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Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if…
— Ernst Mayr
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CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
— Ambrose Bierce
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SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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