Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
SAMUEL JOHNSONA man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
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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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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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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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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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