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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.
Lin Yutang
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It is no matter what you teach them first, any more than what leg you shall put into your breeches first. You may stand disputing which is best to put in first, but in the mean time your breech is bare. Sir, while you are considering which of two things you should teach your child first, another boy has learned them both.
Samuel Johnson
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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
Samuel Johnson
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We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
Samuel Johnson
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
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Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.
Denis Diderot
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Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no other task than to lay two books before them, out of which they compile a third, without any new material of their own, and with very little application of judgment to those which former authors have supplied.
Samuel Johnson
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There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.
Denis Diderot
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Celestial wisdom calms the mind.
Samuel Johnson
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Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson
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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Samuel Johnson
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
Samuel Johnson
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People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
Samuel Johnson
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Samuel Johnson
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Every other author may aspire to praise the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
Samuel Johnson
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He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you
Wilhelm Grimm
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
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When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Samuel Johnson
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
Leo Rosten
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
Samuel Johnson
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The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography.
Samuel Johnson
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Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
Denis Diderot
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Samuel Johnson
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