Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
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What 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.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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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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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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