When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Truth allows no choice.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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