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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears
Samuel Johnson
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Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.
Denis Diderot
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Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
Samuel Johnson
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Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
Samuel Johnson
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Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.
Noah Porter
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel Johnson
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The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.
Lin Yutang
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Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.
Samuel Johnson
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention upon the comparison of probabilities and the adjustment of expedients, and pause in the choice of his road, till some accident intercepts his journey.
Samuel Johnson
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A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
Lin Yutang
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The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.
Noah Webster
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And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Samuel Johnson
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Every man is of importance to himself.
Samuel Johnson
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In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.
Noah Webster
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Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?
Samuel Johnson
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In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.
Samuel Johnson
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Samuel Johnson
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The equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
Lin Yutang
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The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
Samuel Johnson
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He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Samuel Johnson
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen
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The violence of war admits no distinction the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
Samuel Johnson
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Reason and truth will prevail at last
Samuel Johnson
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