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 JOHNSONLife affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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 next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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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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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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