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Bookseller Inspirational Quotes (1614)

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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
George Orwell
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Samuel Johnson
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
Samuel Johnson
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
George Orwell
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Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
Samuel Johnson
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I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
Samuel Johnson
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Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
Glen Duncan
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To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions
George Orwell
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson
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No one ever became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
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I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.
Martin Schulz
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Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
Samuel Johnson
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I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.
Glen Duncan
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Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. - John V. Lindsay No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Samuel Johnson
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Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
Samuel Johnson
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We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.
Samuel Johnson
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
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Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
Tom Hodgkinson
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A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
Samuel Johnson
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Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Brian Aldiss
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