"Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and……" — Samuel Johnson
"Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate."
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Samuel Johnson
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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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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything:…
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I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't…
— Hillary Clinton
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The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than…
— William Whewell
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot…
— William Hazlitt
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human…
— Alexander Hamilton
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is…
— James Hutton
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Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases…
— Unknown Author
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not…
— Victor Hugo
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or…
— Des MacHale
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how…
— Seneca the Younger
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I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long…
— John Maynard Keynes
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