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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.

Samuel Johnson

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Associate Greatness Local Man Position
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Easy Excellence One Liner
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

End God Greatness Guide Motivational Original Spring
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Instruction Need People
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Kindness Ourselves Power
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Coward Patriot Refuge
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Himself Man Pride Vice
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Measurement Treat True
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Desire Enjoyment Himself Man Philosophy Poor Rich Wisdom
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Dangerous Integrity Knowledge Weakness
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World

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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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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