[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
Samuel Johnson
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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
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HITOPADESA No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
ARCHIBALD WAVELL No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
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G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
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PLATO To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
ANATOLE FRANCE I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear,...
VINCE LOMBARDI No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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SHERYL SANDBERG No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most
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CRISS JAMI If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
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DICK CHENEY No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
MUHAMMAD He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JONSON He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h...
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ARCHIBALD WAVELL The woman, who is not the wife, has no right to receive the seed of the man,because it is the man an...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY A man should not marry a woman unless and until he is confident to reach to the level of selfishness...
ANUJ SOMANY There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he ha...
A. P. GOUTHEY There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has...
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SUE GRAFTON Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.
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HAYAO MIYAZAKI Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts t...
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FRANCIS BACON McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.
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HARRY LORAYNE Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely e...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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