There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Truth allows no choice.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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