Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNone but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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