What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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