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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson 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.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson
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