"No man will be found in whose mind……" — Samuel Johnson
"No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability."
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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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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and…
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
— Paul Cezanne
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and…
— Eric Alterman
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that…
— Edmond Halley
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There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging…
— Gregory Benford
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
— Madeleine Albright
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