When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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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.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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