The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAdvice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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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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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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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