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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.

Samuel Johnson

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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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Coward Defense Revenge
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need People
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Evidence One Liner Power Truth
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Advice Need Welcome
It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Business Happiness Himself Man
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Argument Reason Remove
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking
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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Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Fashion Opinion Reason
The future is purchased by the present.
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Deep Future One Liner Present Time
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time

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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