Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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