Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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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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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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