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 JOHNSONEvery man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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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Truth allows no choice.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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