Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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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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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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