Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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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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