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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Samuel Johnson |
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Quotes By author - Starting with S - Samuel Johnson
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Subject:
Enemy
War
Respect
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Subject:
Assist
Charity
Capitalism
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Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Subject:
Curiosity
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It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
Subject:
Ability
Confidence
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Love is only one of many passions.
Subject:
Love & Romance
Emotions
Human Nature
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Inspirational
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Subject:
Freedom
Poverty
Virtue
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Subject:
Ability
Duty
Good
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Thinking
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
Subject:
Wisdom
Happiness
Beauty
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