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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence they have relegated him to a sanctuary the walls of the temple restrict his view he does not exist outside of it.
Denis Diderot
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I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son.
William Torrey Harris
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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
William Torrey Harris
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What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s
Samuel Johnson
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson
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It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
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O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!
Lin Yutang
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Samuel Johnson
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.
Samuel Johnson
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It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
Pierre Bayle
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A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
Adoniram Judson
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Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
Adoniram Judson
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There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
Adoniram Judson
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If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
Adoniram Judson
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Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'
Adoniram Judson
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Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
Adoniram Judson
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It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
Adoniram Judson
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I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
Adoniram Judson
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God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
Adoniram Judson
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After many painful trials, which none can know, but those who are taught to relinquish a system in which they had been educated, I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.
Adoniram Judson
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
Leo Rosten
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