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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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