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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSlander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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