Our aspirations are our possibilities.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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