"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice……" — Samuel Johnson
"In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence."
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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 Bashfulness Quotes
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
— Joseph Addison
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
— Torquato Tasso
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps…
— Henry Mackenzie
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Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the…
— Mark Twain
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Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my…
— Margaret Cavendish
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When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
— George McGovern
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