The future is purchased by the present.
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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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