Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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