Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
SAMUEL JOHNSONDeviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Truth allows no choice.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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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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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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