"When I was as you are now, towering……" — Samuel Johnson
"When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I now am."
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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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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to…
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Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the…
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I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged…
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
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