"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,……" — Samuel Johnson
"There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron."
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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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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
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Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good…
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Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a…
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark…
— Samuel Johnson
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than…
— Jon Krakauer
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Doing what is right in the face of adversity is not always easy or popular. Critics may assail you, but…
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
— John Dryden
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Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings…
— Frances Sargent Osgood
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs,…
— Hippocrates
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Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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