"If you are idle, be not solitary; if……" — Samuel Johnson
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle."
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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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More Idle Quotes
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.
— Walter Bagehot
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois…
— Nick Cave
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring…
— Benjamin Haydon
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,…
— Osbert Sitwell
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and…
— William Penn
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Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill…
— Wumen Huikai
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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
— William Shakespeare
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