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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
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Samuel Johnson
The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds nor has any part of the world y
Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality
Samuel Johnson
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
Samuel Johnson
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It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
Stephen Hopkins
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Randall Terry
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Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy.
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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
The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Samuel Johnson
The age being now past of vagrant excursion and fortuitous hostility, he was under the necessity of travelling from court to court, scorned and repulsed as a wild projector, an idle promiser of kingdoms in the clouds nor has any part of the world y
Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality
Samuel Johnson
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence
Samuel Johnson
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Based on Topics: Happiness Quotes, Moderation & Temperance Quotes
It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.
Stephen Hopkins
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Randall Terry