Our aspirations are our possibilities.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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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 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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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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