Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAdvice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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