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8984 quotesClassical 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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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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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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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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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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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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge
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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Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson
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Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
Planning
Samuel Johnson
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Arts and Artists
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