Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.
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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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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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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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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A 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.
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Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.
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Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.
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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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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
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