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Quote by Samuel Johnson
To love one that is great, is almost to be great ones self. - Samu

To love one that is great, is almost to be great ones self. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Samuel Johnson
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Beauty
Author
Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now. – William Glasser

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As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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great

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. – Frederic Bastiat

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My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. – Peace Pilgrim

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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about – Robert Benchley

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Argument & Debate

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

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