"No people can be great who have ceased…" — Samuel Johnson

"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."

— Samuel Johnson

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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…

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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have… — Bernard Baruch
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try… — Conrad Black
I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they've ceased to be of any use… — John Cleese
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of… — Julian Huxley
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
When I had nothing more to lose, I was given everything. When I ceased to be who I am, I… — Paulo Coelho
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But… — F. H. Bradley
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never… — Edith Hamilton
Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist. — Adolf Hitler
The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing… — Hermann Hesse
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To… — Mark Twain

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