Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHe 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.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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You can never be wise unless you love reading.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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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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