None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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