"It is easy for a man who sits……" — Samuel Johnson
"It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind."
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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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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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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
— Giacomo Casanova
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the…
— Joseph Addison
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
— Tryon Edwards
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
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