If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPeople need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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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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The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
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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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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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