Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMen more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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