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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
Leslie Stephen
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As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time but the more precedents there are, the less occasion is there for law that is to say, the less occasion is there for investigating principles.
Samuel Johnson
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Denis Diderot
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel Johnson
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Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
Lin Yutang
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How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Samuel Johnson
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If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.
Denis Diderot
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Art is both creation and recreation.
Lin Yutang
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Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Erin McKean
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As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.
Richard Chenevix Trench
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson
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An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson
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As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.
Samuel Johnson
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A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
Samuel Johnson
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.
Charlton Laird
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Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.
Samuel Johnson
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
Samuel Johnson
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
Samuel Johnson
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Samuel Johnson
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Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.
Samuel Johnson
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To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.
Samuel Johnson
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