"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often……" — Samuel Johnson
"Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow."
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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 Conceal Quotes
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane Austen
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
— James Agate
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
— Martial
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
— Osbert Sitwell
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
— A. E. Housman
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