How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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 next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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