Dr. Samuel Johnson

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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."	Anger, Knowledge, Reading
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."	Change, Happiness, Honesty
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."	Miscellaneous
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done."	Men
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."	Honesty, Knowledge, Learning
"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."	Adversity, Difficulty, Men
"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning."	Hope, Knowledge, Men
"Our brightes blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."	Miscellaneous
"He who praises everybody, praises nobody."	Criticism
"A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."	Evil
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."	Miscellaneous
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit."	Education, Evil, Good
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."	Hope, Learning, Wishing
"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."	Equality, Excellence, Honesty
"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."	Friends, Love
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."	Change, Effort, Happiness
"Language is the dress of thought."	Age
"There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity."	Confidence, Friends
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."	Evil, Intentions
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