He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPeople need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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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.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Truth allows no choice.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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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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