"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless…" — Samuel Johnson
"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."
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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 Careless Quotes
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one of 294 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt
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Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband…
— Honore de Balzac
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That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first…
— Robert Browning
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The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
— A. R. Ammons
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
— Ben Jonson
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
— Horace
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A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose…
— William Shakespeare
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect,…
— John of the Cross
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto…
— Michael Pollan
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