Quote by Samuel Johnson
Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are cal

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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Generations
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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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Habits
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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

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Beauty
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate. – William James

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. – Thomas Carlyle

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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin

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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. – William Hazlitt

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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. – Ernst Mach

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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. – Bill Murray

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Its Gods will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. Its Gods will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt. – Joel Osteen

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