Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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