"Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where……" — Samuel Johnson
"Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected."
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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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More Approbation Quotes
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
— David Hume
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of…
— Joseph Addison
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There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his…
— Arthur Helps
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It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the…
— Thomas Reid
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Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our…
— Charles Darwin
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Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity.…
— Herbert Spencer
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as…
— William Golding
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The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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