Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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