Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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