The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
SAMUEL JOHNSONYour manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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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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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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