"They who most loudly clamour for liberty do……" — Samuel Johnson
"They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it."
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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 Clamour Quotes
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
— Thomas Carlyle
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When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is…
— Piers Anthony
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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a…
— J M Coetzee
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The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
— William Shakespeare
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They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in…
— Pope Pius IV
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious…
— Samuel Johnson
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The people themselves begin to clamour for an education which shall qualify their children for life rather than for earning…
— Charlotte Mason
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Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
— Oswald Chambers
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In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is…
— Jacques Attali
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When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.
— Alexander Pope
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God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
— Charles Stanley
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Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke…
— Evelyn Waugh
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