Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent 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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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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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Truth allows no choice.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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