Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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