"Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left……" — Samuel Johnson
"Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality."
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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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I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a…
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
— Edmund Burke
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Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are…
— Albert Camus
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But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain…
— Laozi
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Frugality includes all the other virtues.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
— John Ray
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if…
— Benjamin Franklin
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to…
— George Mason
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There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds…
— Horace Mann
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
— Frederic Bastiat
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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
— Agesilaus II
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