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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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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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