Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAdvice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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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 future is purchased by the present.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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