It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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