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3284 quotesLabor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
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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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Home
Samuel Johnson
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Libraries
Samuel Johnson
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
Cities and City Life
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 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 highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
Servants
Samuel Johnson
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
Opinions
Samuel Johnson
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Complaints and Complaining
Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Charm
Samuel Johnson
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination
Samuel Johnson
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Focus
Samuel Johnson
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.
Night
Samuel Johnson
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Enemies
Ernest Jones
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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Franklin P. Jones
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Children
Franklin P. Jones
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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.
Faith
Rufus M. Jones
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice
Erica Jong
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
Time and Time Management
Ben Jonson
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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
Life and Living
David Starr Jordan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun