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(118 votes)  Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(118 votes)  I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.

Joseph French Johnson

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(117 votes)  Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson
1959-, American Basketball Player

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(117 votes)  To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(117 votes)  Violence is a sign of ignorance,and ignorance is bliss

Jackson Johnson
Dark

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(116 votes)  Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

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(116 votes)  Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(116 votes)  In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(116 votes)  Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(116 votes)  The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(116 votes)  Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o clock is a scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(116 votes)  He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(116 votes)  Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Lady Bird Johnson

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(115 votes)  The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(115 votes)  I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(115 votes)  You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(115 votes)  Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(115 votes)  Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(115 votes)  The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  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.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(114 votes)  It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson

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(113 votes)  I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(113 votes)  Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(113 votes)  A good poet's made as well as born.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(113 votes)  No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson
1871-1938, American Writer, Diplomat

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(112 votes)  Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Johnson

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(112 votes)  Round numbers are always false.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(112 votes)  Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

James Weldon Johnson
1871-1938, American Writer, Diplomat

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(111 votes)  If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Johnson

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