No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNo man was ever great by imitation.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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