"Patience and submission are very carefully to be……" — Samuel Johnson
"Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the…
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within…
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger…
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined…
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