People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPower is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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