The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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