A Quote by Samuel Johnson

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Samuel Johnson

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Acquaintance Admiration Begins Ceases

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

James Allen

The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Oscar Wilde

Where pride begins, love ceases.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Mikhail Bakunin

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Joseph Addison

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Fulton J. Sheen

Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.

Andrew Cohen

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

James Prescott Joule

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.

Jean-Baptiste Say

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.