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13535 quotesAs peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Idleness
Samuel Johnson
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
Christians and Christianity
Samuel Johnson
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Heroes and Heroism
Samuel Johnson
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Quotations
Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Curiosity
Samuel Johnson
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
Perspective
Samuel Johnson
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Quotations
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 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 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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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 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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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music
Samuel Johnson
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Language
Samuel Johnson
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Language is the dress of thought.
Language
Samuel Johnson
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Law and Lawyers
Samuel Johnson
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Simplicity
Samuel Johnson
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Love
Samuel Johnson
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
Women
Samuel Johnson
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No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
Disapproval
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