There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLiberty 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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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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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Truth allows no choice.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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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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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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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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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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