The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONI never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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 true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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