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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. - Samuel

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Broken Hearts
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Fish, Fishing
Author
Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Glory
category

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? – Christopher Marlowe

Category:
Glory

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. – Marcus Valerius Martial

Category:
Glory

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Category:
Glory

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. – Thomas Paine

Category:
Glory

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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. – Alfonso X

Category:
Creation

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. – Toni Morrison, Beloved

Category:
Friendship

I have no requirements for a style of architecture. – Michael Graves

Category:
architecture

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. – Oliver Cromwell

Category:
Trust