Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLanguage is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Truth allows no choice.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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 man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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