Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Truth allows no choice.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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