I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSONIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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