Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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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 misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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