"There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here……" — Samuel Johnson
"There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey."
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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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More Ambush Quotes
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Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled…
— Sun Tzu
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In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
— Elliott Chaze
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This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow.…
— Robert Pattinson
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like…
— Janet Morris
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Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
— Andrew Davidson
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I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's --…
— Tom Stoppard
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There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!
— Jamie Oliver
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Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke…
— David Ben-Gurion
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Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
— Samuel Garth
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What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
— Hafez
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