The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSONEach person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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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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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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