Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not 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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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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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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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