The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Truth allows no choice.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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