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.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPower is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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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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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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Truth allows no choice.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
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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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