Grief is a species of idleness.
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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When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
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Truth allows no choice.
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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.
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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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