Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
SAMUEL JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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