"To get a name can happen but to……" — Samuel Johnson
"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have…
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed…
— Arthur W. Pink
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife.…
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