A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
SAMUEL JOHNSONHow small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
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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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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
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Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.
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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 decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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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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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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Truth allows no choice.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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 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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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing – it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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