Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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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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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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