"It matters not how a man dies, but…" — Samuel Johnson
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives."
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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 Dies Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are…
— Annie Besant
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
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