There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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 future is purchased by the present.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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