You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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