"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words……" — Samuel Johnson
"Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
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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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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe…
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
— John Berger
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Accustom yourself to tireless activity.
— Alexander Suvorov
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you…
— Francois Fenelon
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Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
— Samuel Johnson
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The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort…
— Alexander Pope
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We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of…
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
— Oscar Wilde
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Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to…
— Blaise Pascal
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Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness…
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