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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Noah Porter
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To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.
Samuel Johnson
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The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.
Lin Yutang
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A fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make something in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.
Samuel Johnson
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Everything has its place and time. We men of the nineteen-forties can smile at the mistakes of the nineteen-thirties, and, in turn, the men of the nineteen-fifties will laugh at the mistakes of the nineteen-forties. It is this historical perspective that shall save us.
Lin Yutang
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You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.
Erin McKean
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
Wilhelm Grimm
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All envy is proportionate to desire we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
Samuel Johnson
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel Johnson
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I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
Samuel Johnson
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Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
Samuel Johnson
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Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
William Dwight Whitney
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.
Samuel Johnson
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A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Samuel Johnson
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Talking of love is making it.
William Gurney Benham
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He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
William Gurney Benham
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God's help is nearer than the door.
William Gurney Benham
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What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
William Gurney Benham
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
Samuel Johnson
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Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
Leslie Stephen
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
Samuel Johnson
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Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
Samuel Johnson
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth especially in an aged bosom
Samuel Johnson
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