"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises……" — Samuel Johnson
"This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd"
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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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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 Mournful Quotes
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous,…
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an…
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I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and…
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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep!…
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
— Samuel Johnson
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for…
— Plutarch
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for,…
— Plutarch
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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God…
— Romain Rolland
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the…
— Hector Berlioz
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn…
— Thomas de Quincey
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If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny…
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