Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhat is easy is seldom excellent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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