Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
SAMUEL JOHNSONGrief is a species of idleness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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