It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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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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