The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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