Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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