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Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, i...
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely ne...
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He that never thinks can never be wise.
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The true sound and strong mind is the one that can embrace equally great and small things.
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Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon t...
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To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by othe...
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complai...
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Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.
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Language is the pedigree of nations.
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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that...
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There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in co...
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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
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No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but...
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To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
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Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them...
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memo...
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There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksg...
MONICA JOHNSON

I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who ju...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
ZACH JOHNSON

I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to ge...
ZACH JOHNSON

When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we real...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get t...
ZACH JOHNSON

My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And some...
ZACH JOHNSON

I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to ca...
ZACH JOHNSON

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west s...
ZACH JOHNSON

Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot...
ZACH JOHNSON

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course h...
ZACH JOHNSON

I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwe...
ZACH JOHNSON

Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, conten...
ZACH JOHNSON

The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what...
ZACH JOHNSON

Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a ...
ZACH JOHNSON

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted...
ZACH JOHNSON

I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opp...
ZACH JOHNSON

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great m...
ZACH JOHNSON

I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, a...
ZACH JOHNSON

You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to se...
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
ZACH JOHNSON

I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of ...
ZACH JOHNSON

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go...
ZACH JOHNSON

I like to look good on the golf course.
ZACH JOHNSON

Stay strong. Stand up. Have a voice.
SHAWN JOHNSON

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
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

Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I don't care if I never see Texas again.
RAFER JOHNSON I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the ...
RAFER JOHNSON It's very warm there, so we were outdoors all the time. The local people had programs for us yea...
RAFER JOHNSON The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
RAFER JOHNSON Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.
RAFER JOHNSON I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that ...
RAFER JOHNSON I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
RAFER JOHNSON So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey prog...
RAFER JOHNSON The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opport...
RAFER JOHNSON Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.
RAFER JOHNSON What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them ...
RAFER JOHNSON I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the m...
RANDY JOHNSON Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have ...
RANDY JOHNSON I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and g...
RANDY JOHNSON It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a f...
RANDY JOHNSON I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me...
RANDY JOHNSON When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.
RANDY JOHNSON I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was...
RANDY JOHNSON I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I ...
RANDY JOHNSON I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've got...
RANDY JOHNSON The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
RANDY JOHNSON I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.
RANDY JOHNSON People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at...
RANDY JOHNSON When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
RANDY JOHNSON Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I&#...
RANDY JOHNSON I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to m...
RANDY JOHNSON The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that y...
KEYSHAWN JOHNSON

While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
WENDELL JOHNSON I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
WALTER JOHNSON Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe W...
WALTER JOHNSON You can't hit what you can't see.
WALTER JOHNSON It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course an...
JACK JOHNSON My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
JACK JOHNSON Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.
JACK JOHNSON I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
JACK JOHNSON It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
JACK JOHNSON If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love...
JACK JOHNSON Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
JACK JOHNSON We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
JACK JOHNSON Don't let your dreams be dreams.
JACK JOHNSON

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there wo...
RON JOHNSON I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away wi...
RIAN JOHNSON

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often ...
PAUL JOHNSON

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life i...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the ci...
RACHEL JOHNSON

The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because t...
RACHEL JOHNSON

If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don'...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really ...
RACHEL JOHNSON

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like...
RACHEL JOHNSON

People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right...
RACHEL JOHNSON

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answer...
RACHEL JOHNSON

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the ch...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of h...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thru...
RACHEL JOHNSON

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you beh...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.
RACHEL JOHNSON

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realis...
RACHEL JOHNSON

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
RACHEL JOHNSON

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, es...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, ...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have an...
RACHEL JOHNSON

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see wh...
RACHEL JOHNSON

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of th...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I am a total coffee snob and bore. If anyone makes the mistake of offering me 'a coffee' the...
RACHEL JOHNSON

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband co...
DAKOTA JOHNSON Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.
NANCY JOHNSON Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles ...
NANCY JOHNSON

Don't be afraid of trial but don't die in your temptation.

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