Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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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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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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