Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
SAMUEL JOHNSONNever trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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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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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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