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489. Knowledge; Scruples
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
Johnson: Rasselas [the Astronomer]
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558. Integrity; Marriage; Virtue
"...Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and that he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness, that regard which only virtue and piety can claim."
Johnson: Rambler #18 (May 19, 1750)
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1,001. Integrity; Truth
"There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are to be avoided, and so many present gratifications obtained, by craft and delusion, that very few of those who are much entangled in life have spirit and constancy sufficient to support them in the steady practice of open veracity."
Johnson: Rambler #96 (February 16, 1751)
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1,657. Integrity; Individuality; Virtue
"There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example."
Johnson: Adventurer #131 (February 5, 1754)
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