It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
SAMUEL JOHNSONShame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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