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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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