Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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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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, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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