Quotes of Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

- Samuel Johnson

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“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow. ”

- David Kofi Awusi

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ No,' Nora said, almost in a whisper. 'It's because ' she looked carefully for the words 'you didn't stare at me. I saw you blush, and you immediately lowered your eyes. And I should have been embarrassed, ashamed... but I, I just felt safe, and I stood there unafraid.' She closed her eyes, taking in all the feelings of gratitude she had for that moment. 'That's when I knew I could trust you in a way that I didn't know was possible. ”

- Hani Selim

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. ”

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell