Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
SAMUEL JOHNSONGrief is a species of idleness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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