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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Samuel Johnson

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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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Oneself People Talk Well
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Father Freedom Independent Power Son Struggle
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Determination Diligence Greatness Impossible Performance Perservance Skills Strength Work
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Animal Home Mathematics
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Language Mindset Talk Thinking Yourself
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Instruction Need People
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Break Hope Kindness Return Rule Violence
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Himself Man Pride Vice
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Attempt Himself Life Man Possession Waste
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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Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

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