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Ben Johnson

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

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02Undated

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

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03Undated

Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

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04Undated

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

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05Undated

They that know no evil will suspect none.

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06Undated

To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!

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07Undated

O for an engine to keep back all clocks!

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08Undated

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

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09Undated

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

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10Undated

The way to rise is to obey and please.

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