The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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