Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSONAll 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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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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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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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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The future is purchased by the present.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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