"In a man’s letters his soul lies naked." — Samuel Johnson
"In a man’s letters his soul lies naked."
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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 Letters Quotes
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
— Jane Austen
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Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media…
— Russell Baker
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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
— Alec Baldwin
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For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get…
— Amber Benson
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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better…
— Mortimer Adler
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and…
— Pam Brown
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One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from…
— James Buchan
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