"We owe to memory not only the increase……" — Samuel Johnson
"We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures"
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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 Increase Quotes
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
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These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.
— Julian Assange
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
— Chester A. Arthur
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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you…
— David Attenborough
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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
— Charles Babbage
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
— Charles Babbage
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The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by…
— Joe Baca
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Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for…
— Honore de Balzac
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
— Francis Bacon
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
— Iain Banks
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