Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
SAMUEL JOHNSONBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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