"Life is not long, and too much of……" — Samuel Johnson
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent."
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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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More Deliberation Quotes
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in…
— Sun Tzu
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
— William James
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I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations,…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for…
— Samuel Adams
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He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
— Samuel Adams
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Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them…
— Timothy Ball
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Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most…
— Charles Darwin
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Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular…
— Kevin Mattson
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