"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal……" — Samuel Johnson
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
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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 Cannot Subsist Quotes
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Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.
— Ambrose Bierce
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that…
— John Winthrop
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality…
— Unknown Author
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Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.
— Umar
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions,…
— Joseph Addison
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
— Ezra Stiles
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It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in…
— Samuel Adams
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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
— Daniel Webster
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Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or…
— Francois La Rochefoucauld
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
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