Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
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