Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe true art of memory is the art of attention.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Truth allows no choice.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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