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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhen once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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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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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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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 wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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