| 208 Famous Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
Nature Quotes |
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“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.”
Abstinence Quotes |
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“Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases”
Admiration Quotes |
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“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”
Agriculture Quotes |
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“The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.”
Benevolence Quotes |
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“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Celibacy Quotes |
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“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”
Cheating Quotes |
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“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford”
Cities Quotes |
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“Controversies merely speculative are of small importance in themselves, however they may have sometimes heated a disputant, or provoked a faction”
Controversy Quotes |
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“Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption”
Credulity Quotes |
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“Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.”
Dedication Quotes |
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“The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence”
Dependence Quotes |
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“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”
Design Quotes |
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“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Diligence Quotes |
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“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument”
Discrimination Quotes |
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“There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful”
Doctrine Quotes |
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Ethics Quotes |
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“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”
Falsehood Quotes |
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“A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other”
Fishing Quotes |
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“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”
Fraud Quotes |
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“Inconsistencies cannot both be right; but, imputed to man, they may both be true”
Inconsistency Quotes |
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“An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere.”
Injustice Quotes |
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“Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it”
Jest Quotes |
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“The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public”
Justice Quotes |
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“All intellectual improvement arises from leisure”
Leisure Quotes |
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Samuel Johnson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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