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168 quotes (Page 2 of 7 pages)Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Army and Navy
Samuel Johnson
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Quotations
Samuel Johnson
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Exercise is labor without weariness.
Exercise
Samuel Johnson
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Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
Focus
Samuel Johnson
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For who is pleased with himself.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson
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Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Perseverance
Samuel Johnson
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson
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He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
Wisdom
Samuel Johnson
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson
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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Neglect
Samuel Johnson
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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.
Courage
Samuel Johnson
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Food and Eating
Samuel Johnson
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Wit
Samuel Johnson
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain
Samuel Johnson
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He who praises every body, praises nobody.
Uncategorised
Samuel Johnson
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Praise
Samuel Johnson
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Charity
Samuel Johnson
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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Humor
Samuel Johnson
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I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
Language
Samuel Johnson
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I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
America
Samuel Johnson
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I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.
Jokes and Jokers
Samuel Johnson
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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
Humankind
Samuel Johnson
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Friends and Friendship
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