All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCourage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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