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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Johnson :: View Quote View Quote "No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Johnson Listed in: Morality Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.5  Rate Quote 2 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." "Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment." Top 5 quotes from Morality "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble." "Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience." "I never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man." "The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."

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