Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNo 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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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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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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