People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMoney 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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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.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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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.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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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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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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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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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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