"The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out,……" — Samuel Johnson
"The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed."
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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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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory.
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We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.
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Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
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