"The friendship which is to be practised or……" — Samuel Johnson
"The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other."
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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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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and…
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates…
— B R Ambedkar
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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our…
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The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control…
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When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions…
— Francois Fenelon
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When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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