"When once a man has made celebrity necessary……" — Samuel Johnson
"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligen"
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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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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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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I…
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My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like…
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or…
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and…
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When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance…
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain…
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If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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If you call me a new-age, airy-fairy, hippie-dippy airhead I will shove my crystals up your ass.
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— Edmond Halley
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