Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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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.
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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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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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