Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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