"Such seems to be the disposition of man,……" — Samuel Johnson
"Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry."
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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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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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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as…
— John Adams
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for…
— Giacomo Casanova
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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:…
— Margaret Cavendish
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Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
— Oswald Chambers
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If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value…
— Chanakya
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
— Emmet Fox
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
— Booker T. Washington
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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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