None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSONSir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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