Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLife affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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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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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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