Grief is a species of idleness.
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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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