When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe future is purchased by the present.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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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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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Truth allows no choice.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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.
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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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