Our aspirations are our possibilities.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPower is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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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.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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