Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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