Samuel Johnson Quotes About Power
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
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Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.
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To do nothing is in everyone's power.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
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He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
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Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
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