What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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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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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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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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