Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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