"People in distress never think that you feel…" — Samuel Johnson
"People in distress never think that you feel enough."
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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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 Distress Quotes
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
— Edmund Burke
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to…
— Dalai Lama
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of…
— Sun Tzu
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