Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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A 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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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