Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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