What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONDeviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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