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 JOHNSONIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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