Our aspirations are our possibilities.
SAMUEL JOHNSONYour manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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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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