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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONTo 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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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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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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