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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Care Hands Mad Man Ourselves Pity Room
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Happiness heavy Life Money Mortal Time
Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Happiness Nature
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Desire Man Myself Reading Writing
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Coward Defense Revenge
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Argument Reason Remove
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Forgive Man Necessary Pain True Value Wisdom
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advantage Better Country Enjoyment Himself Improvement Learning Travel Visit Worst
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Abuse Government Human Nature Power Safety
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Commitment Existence Guilty Injury Mistake Society
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Advice Need Welcome
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Difficult Gratitude Happiness Success
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Effort Happiness Reading Writing
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Angel Dangerous Fear Fools Knowledge
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Equality Monument Past Pride Wisdom

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