"There are few ways in which a man……" — Samuel Johnson
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money."
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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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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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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in…
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Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
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what is wanting to restore us to our station among our confederates? not more money from the people. enough has…
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Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity.
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The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes…
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