The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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