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Lexicographer Inspirational Quotes (1434)

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Let us take a patriot, where we can meet him and, that we may not flatter ourselves by false appearances, distinguish those marks which are certain, from those which may deceive for a man may have the external appearance of a patriot, without the constituent qualities as false coins have often lustre, though they want weight.
Samuel Johnson
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
Samuel Johnson
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We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.
Samuel Johnson
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang
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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Junius
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I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.
Leo Rosten
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Misfortunes should always be expected.
Samuel Johnson
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To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day
Samuel Johnson
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
Samuel Johnson
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Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves
Samuel Johnson
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I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.
Samuel Johnson
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...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
Samuel Johnson
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He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle.
Richard Mulcaster
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
Denis Diderot
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If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
Samuel Johnson
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He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.
Samuel Johnson
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The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws . . . The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and his Apostles . . . This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.
Noah Webster
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson
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Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave
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The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Samuel Johnson
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We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.
Adoniram Judson
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All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.
Richard Chenevix Trench
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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