"Every period of life is obliged to borrow……" — Samuel Johnson
"Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come."
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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 Borrow Quotes
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I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal…
— Michele Bachmann
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts…
— David Cameron
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Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue…
— Jay Carney
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
— Ray Charles
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not…
— Unknown Author
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is…
— Peter Høeg
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
— William James
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains…
— Charles Babbage
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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