All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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 any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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