Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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 future is purchased by the present.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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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