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2466 quotesNothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Hope
Samuel Johnson
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Achievement
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Knowledge
Samuel Johnson
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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.
Tragedies
Samuel Johnson
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Reform
Samuel Johnson
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Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Virtue
Samuel Johnson
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There is such a thing as moderation, even in telling the truth.
Moderation
Vera Johnson
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience
Franklin P. Jones
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Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
Neighbors
Franklin P. Jones
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Children
Franklin P. Jones
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Risk
Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
Blame
Erica Jong
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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Risk
Erica Jong
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Speakers and Speaking
Ben Jonson
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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Expectation
Michael Jordan
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Ask the young. They know everything.
Youth
Joseph Joubert
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Words
Joseph Joubert
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Achievement
Benjamin Jowett
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.
Impossibility
Florence Griffith Joyner
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Imitation
Carl Jung
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Perspective
Carl Jung
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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
Poverty and The Poor
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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All things may be bought in Rome with money.
Cities and City Life
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun