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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.
Lin Yutang
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The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
Samuel Johnson
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I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min
Samuel Johnson
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God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
Adoniram Judson
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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
Samuel Johnson
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Where will you find any code of laws among civilized men in which the commands and prohibitions are not founded on Christian principles? I need not specify the prohibition of murder, robbery, theft, trespass.
Noah Webster
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson
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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel Johnson
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Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
Samuel Johnson
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The insolence of wealth will creep out.
Samuel Johnson
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All language is a popularity contest.
Erin McKean
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
Samuel Johnson
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Samuel Johnson
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The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book may be assessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.
Noah Webster
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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Richard Chenevix Trench
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Denis Diderot
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
Samuel Johnson
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He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.
Samuel Johnson
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Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.
James Legge
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In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.
Samuel Johnson
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You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.
Samuel Johnson
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