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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
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Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.
Denis Diderot
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A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
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He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.
Samuel Johnson
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It is not the man who is beside himself, but he who is cool and collected,--who is master of his countenance, of his voice, of his actions, of his gestures, of every part of his play,--who can work upon others at his pleasure.
Denis Diderot
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Occupation alone is happiness.
Samuel Johnson
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Samuel Johnson
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Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony is it from charity, or revenge ?.
Louis Gustave Vapereau
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
Samuel Johnson
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
Samuel Johnson
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The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
Leslie Stephen
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All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.
Samuel Johnson
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But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
Samuel Johnson
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Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.
Samuel Johnson
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
Samuel Johnson
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How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!
Samuel Johnson
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As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
Samuel Johnson
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men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
Samuel Johnson
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To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
Samuel Johnson
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This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
Samuel Johnson
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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson
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Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.
Samuel Johnson
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