"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."
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Samuel Johnson
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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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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I…
— Victoria Beckham
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire…
— William Blake
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a…
— William Jennings Bryan
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid…
— James Buchan
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire…
— Julie Burchill
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no…
— George W. Bush
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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