Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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