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Virtues Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions…
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters…
- Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
- 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…
- I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
- [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when…
- Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other
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- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I… — Donald Bradman
- No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most… — Michel de Montaigne