The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSlander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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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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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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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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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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