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 JOHNSONIf you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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