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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.


Samuel Johnson

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DAVID RICARDO Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for th...
BEN ELTON The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for ...
BEN ELTON Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dep...
DAVID RICARDO A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
RICHARD STEELE SR. Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its inter...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions...
KARL RADEK War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more fr...
DAVID HUME If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is enta...
KARL JASPERS This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.
CRISS JAMI It is clear that the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its la...
ROY COOPER The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; ...
GEORGE CATLIN To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL In the soul where Christ savingly is, there He lives. He not only lives without it, so as violently ...
JONATHAN EDWARDS the manner in which state money was directed is problematic for its secrecy, its lack of accountabil...
ROY COOPER Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
THORNTON WILDER During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.
LEONARDO DA VINCI This agreement with Johnson & Johnson provides significant financial value and certainty for shareho...
JAMES CORNELIUS This agreement with Johnson and Johnson provides significant financial value and certainty for share...
JAMES CORNELIUS The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its h...
LEV GROSSMAN Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Q...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
DEYTH BANGER Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.
MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
ARISTOTLE I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN The hand which gives is far better than the one which receives.
VIKRANT PARSAI Now, it receives the recognition it deserves from the state of Arkansas.
SKIP RUTHERFORD The vet said there were injuries to the top of its head and it was clearly swimming in a disorientat...
TONY WOODLEY have always responded in a professional manner from all inquires from the council and all members of...
WILLIAM GRIFFITH The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as...
TOM WOLFE The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for it...
JOHN LOCKE The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for i...
JOHN LOCKE Till the time Mother Nature takes away what she had bestowed upon us for free - this wonderful gift,...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be...
HENRY MACKENZIE It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can b...
HENRY MACKENZIE It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be...
HENRY MACKENZIE Take a break of that which you enjoy and what you don't enjoy leave it.
DEYTH BANGER He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for hi...
JOSE MARTI Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there...
NEAL CASSADY Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there...
ANGELA CARTER The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose...
GREGOR MENDEL Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of product...
ADOLF HITLER Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how ...
ADAM SMITH London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...
ANNA QUINDLEN All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the ...
LEONARDO DA VINCI If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The roof is on its side. Does that mean the boat is on its side . . . or ?"
"YES that's what i...
TRENTON OLDFIELD The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...
DESMOND TUTU You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.
STEVE MARABOLI Essentially, they (Guidant) are going to say ... yes there have been issues at Guidant, but do those...
FRANK AQUILA And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set i...
BIBLE Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which h...
EDWARD GIBBON The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practi...
C.S. LEWIS Elliott is extremely disappointed in your decision to accept a revised Johnson & Johnson offer that ...
IVAN KRSTICEVIC While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The...
OSCAR WILDE Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
MAUREEN JOHNSON That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty
SENECA We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want somethin...
C.S. LEWIS The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a...
LUDWIG VON MISES My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Feder...
PETER SCHIFF Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veter...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veter...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The...
OSCAR WILDE It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or ...
GARY HAMEL Their new name may be Red Bull New York, but striking New Jersey from their name seems to be a diffe...
BRENDAN GILFILLAN The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic i...
NOSTRADAMUS Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrs...
ANTHONY T. HANSON The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six feet high, the branches cam...
ROBERT FORTUNE A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the onl...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test o...
T.S. ELIOT To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the ...
ALVIN AILEY It's always growing. Bob Johnson is a visionary.
VERDINE WHITE The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations wh...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much m...
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
MARCUS AURELIUS Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL ... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression i...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The endearing elegance of female friendship.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the publi...
SAMUEL JOHNSON "He was a very good hater."
SAMUEL JOHNSON I like a good hater.
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it posse...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much...
SAMUEL JOHNSON In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over ha...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purc...
SAMUEL JOHNSON My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore o...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that w...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignora...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
SAMUEL JOHNSON That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
SAMUEL JOHNSON When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No one ever became great by imitation.
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