Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
SAMUEL JOHNSONCuriosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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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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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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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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