Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThere are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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