Wisdom Quotes
Quotations to challenge and inspire

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Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

- Samuel Johnson

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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

- Samuel Johnson

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

- Samuel Johnson

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

- Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

- Samuel Johnson

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

- Samuel Johnson

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Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

- Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

- Samuel Johnson

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Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

- Samuel Johnson

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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

- Samuel Johnson

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There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

- Samuel Johnson

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