My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
SAMUEL JOHNSONWhat ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself.
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The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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Grief is a species of idleness.
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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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