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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

Samuel Johnson

When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Belief Hope Success Work
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Character Curiosity Intellectual Oneself
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
Truth allows no choice.
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Choice One Liner Truth
What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Easy Excellence One Liner
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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Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Law Nature Power Wisdom Woman
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Angel Dangerous Fear Fools Knowledge
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity Generosity Greatness Mindset
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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Crime Evil Himself Ignorance Learning Proper
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Death Himself Live Man
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Diligence Hope Learning
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Afford Difficult Life Pleasure
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Evil Man Misery Repeat
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.
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Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Associate Greatness Local Man Position
There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Education Knowledge Wisdom
Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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Consistence Power Steal Theft
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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Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Choice Freedom Solitude Wasted Time Yourself
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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Friendship Mindset Myself
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law

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