If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise

Quote by Samuel Johnson

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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect,...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk...

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

Deviation from nature is deviation from happiness

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own...

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other...

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to...

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and...

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted...

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted...

The future is purchased by the present.

The future is purchased by the present.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do...

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Exercise is labor without weariness.