It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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 true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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