He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.
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Quotes by Samuel Johnson
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Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.
He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.
I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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