Samuel Johnson’s Words
He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. [According to James Boswell, Samuel Johnson was making a pointed reference to “pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.”]
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