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Quote by Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be some

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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation — a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something. – Samuel Johnson

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Letters (writing)
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Samuel Johnson
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you havent courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. – Samuel Johnson

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Courage
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cant see where it keeps its brain. – J. K. Rowling

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We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through. – Arthur Boyd

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One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust. – Kumar Mangalam Birla

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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 to rules as to their ears. – F. L. Lucas

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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
For thus, friends absent speak. – John Donne

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What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. – Rick Perry

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Body