Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSONLife affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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