A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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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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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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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