Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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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 man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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