Quotes with approbation

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  • Samuel Johnson Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Asa Gray Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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