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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Samuel Johnson

It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Business Happiness Himself Man
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Knowledge Wisdom
What is easy is seldom excellent.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Easy Excellence One Liner
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Art Attention Memories True
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Courage Greatness Opportunity Virtue
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Expression Greatness Himself Hope Man Meaning World
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Goodness Original Poet Writing Yourself
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Oneself People Talk Well
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Conscience Deep Fear God Man Rise Shame Wisdom
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Cure Endurance Heart Human King Law
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Change Effort Happiness Himself Human Knowledge Life Nature Seek Wasted Time
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Animal Home Mathematics

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