Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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