Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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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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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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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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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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