What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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