Quotes by Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused t — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye, and while we glide along the stream of time, whatever we leave b — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself? — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and proba — Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia