A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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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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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Truth allows no choice.
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