What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPeople need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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