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168 quotes (Page 5 of 7 pages)Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Advertising
Samuel Johnson
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Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Prudence
Samuel Johnson
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Questions
Samuel Johnson
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Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.
Revenge
Samuel Johnson
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Round numbers are always false.
Statistics
Samuel Johnson
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Security will produce danger.
Security
Samuel Johnson
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
Fear
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Understanding
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Bores and Boredom
Samuel Johnson
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Rhetoric
Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.
Sorrow
Samuel Johnson
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Suspicion is most often useless pain.
Suspicion
Samuel Johnson
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Mistakes
Samuel Johnson
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That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
self-esteem
Samuel Johnson
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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Approval
Samuel Johnson
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
Glory
Samuel Johnson
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The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.
Theater
Samuel Johnson
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson
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The future is purchased by the present.
The future
Samuel Johnson
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The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
Habit
Samuel Johnson
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Bed
Samuel Johnson
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun