"None can be pleased without praise, and few……" — Samuel Johnson
"None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood."
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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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I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
— Abu Bakr
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
— Abu Bakr
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound…
— Niels Bohr
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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