Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites 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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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