You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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A 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.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Truth allows no choice.
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