Truth allows no choice.
SAMUEL JOHNSONExert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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