You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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 superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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