He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPeople need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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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There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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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.
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Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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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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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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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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