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No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
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 (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Modern writers are the moons of literature; they shine with reflected light, with light borrowed from the ancients (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards (Samuel Johnson Quotes)
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons (Samuel Johnson Quotes)