"Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak……" — Samuel Johnson
"Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . ."
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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 Cannot Speak Quotes
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
— Jane Austen
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
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To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on…
— Jackie Huggins
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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their…
— Unknown Author
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The…
— Wangari Maathai
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
— Archibald MacLeish
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True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing…
— Desmond Tutu
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You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot…
— Jim Rohn
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