"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness…" — Samuel Johnson
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
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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 Fondness Quotes
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I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for…
— Alan Ball
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If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making…
— Andrea Bocelli
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
— Alexander Hamilton
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired. This maxim,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for…
— Pearl S. Buck
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He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from…
— Mark Twain
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature…
— John B. S. Haldane
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent,…
— Allan McLeod Cormack
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'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It…
— George Washington
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I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting
— Teri Garr
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother
— Patricia Highsmith
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