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.
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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Truth allows no choice.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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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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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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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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