"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous……" — Samuel Johnson
"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain"
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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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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place…
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Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment,…
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I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.
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Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.
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Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
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