When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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