None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNo 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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