Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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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.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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