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168 quotes (Page 6 of 7 pages)The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Enthusiasm
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 natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
Nationalities and Nationalism
Samuel Johnson
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
Greatness
Samuel Johnson
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Memory
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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Compassion
Samuel Johnson
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There are charms made only for distance admiration.
Charm
Samuel Johnson
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
Mind
Samuel Johnson
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Money
Samuel Johnson
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Confidence
Samuel Johnson
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There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
Scholars and Scholarship
Samuel Johnson
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They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
Example
Samuel Johnson
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Churches
Samuel Johnson
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty and The Poor
Samuel Johnson
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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Kindness
Samuel Johnson
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Secrets
Samuel Johnson
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
The future
Samuel Johnson
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Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Respectability
Samuel Johnson
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Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
Laziness
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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