Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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