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Samuel Inspirational Quotes (2761)

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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.
Stephen Samuel Wise
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
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The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
Samuel R. Delany
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
Samuel Johnson
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I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.
Samuel Alito
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
Samuel Johnson
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There is scarcely a technical issue for which you cannot find expert witnesses of differing opinions.
Samuel Florman
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Samuel Johnson
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Samuel Johnson
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Everything that I've gone through informs me and my opinions in a way, I guess because I am a child of segregation. I lived through it. I lived in it. I was of it.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Samuel Johnson
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
Samuel Johnson
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
Samuel Butler
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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
Samuel Johnson
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Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
Samuel Johnson
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
Samuel Richardson
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