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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten 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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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