Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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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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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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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