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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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