It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and ha... -Samuel Johnson

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

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Samuel Johnson Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel....
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may ...
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are....
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance....
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining...
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes ...
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope....
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence....
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spe...
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good....

Trust Quotes to Explore

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much t...
They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely. I guess I have friends around me but when you're ...
We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away t...
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'....
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you....
Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years....
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it....
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership....
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prep...
All political power is a trust....