"The first years of man must make provision…" — Samuel Johnson
"The first years of man must make provision for the last."
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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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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.
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If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it…
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It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so…
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If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're…
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I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as…
— Rob Reiner
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Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and…
— Melanie Klein
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came…
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Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an…
— Josef Albers
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It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no…
— Victor Serge
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Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon…
— Ellen Terry
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The first years of life are not just important; they are more crucial to shaping children than any other time.…
— Hillary Clinton
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