Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSlander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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