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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
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Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.
James O. Fraser
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Samuel Johnson
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Samuel Johnson
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
Noah Webster
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson
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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.
Denis Diderot
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
Leo Rosten
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If you will be a traveler, have always two bags very full. That is one of patience and another of money.
John Florio
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Samuel Johnson
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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Samuel Johnson
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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
Samuel Johnson
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
Samuel Johnson
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson
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Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born.
John Florio
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