Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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