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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1433)

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Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
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Only the bad man is alone.
Denis Diderot
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If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
Samuel Johnson
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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.
Charlton Laird
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Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.
Samuel Johnson
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
Samuel Johnson
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Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
Samuel Johnson
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He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.
Samuel Johnson
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There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur so many immediate evils are
Samuel Johnson
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It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.
Samuel Johnson
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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Samuel Johnson
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
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The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
Samuel Johnson
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.
Noah Webster
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A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson
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You cannot give me an instance of any man who is permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious hours.
Samuel Johnson
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
Samuel Johnson
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Samuel Johnson
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life for there is in London all that life can afford.
Samuel Johnson
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
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Books have always a secret influence on the understanding we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.
Samuel Johnson
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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
Denis Diderot
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