Quotes with johnson

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  • Samuel Johnson Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
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  • Samuel Johnson Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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  • Samuel Johnson Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Ben Johnson Don't tell me I cheated the system because that's. I didn't get treated fairly by the system. They cast me out and they were jealous because I turned in the fastest time ever run by a human and it was impossible at the time.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Samuel Johnson Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • John H. Johnson Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.
    John H. Johnson
    American businessman and publisher (1918 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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