When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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