"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail." — Samuel Johnson
"Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail."
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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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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
— Mary J. Blige
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
— John Abbott
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
— Emily Blunt
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
— Jacob Bronowski
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When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be…
— Tony Campolo
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
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