"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is……" — Samuel Johnson
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
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Samuel Johnson
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1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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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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Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands…
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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
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Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire…
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