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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
Denis Diderot
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood it is the crime of cowards.
Samuel Johnson
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Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.
Samuel Johnson
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
Samuel Johnson
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There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
Samuel Johnson
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson
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Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
Noah Webster
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It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.
Samuel Johnson
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Language is a nice way to remember things.
Erin McKean
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A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.
Samuel Johnson
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
Samuel Johnson
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Samuel Johnson
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Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Samuel Johnson
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
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To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.
Samuel Johnson
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There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
Samuel Johnson
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Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
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