The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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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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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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 who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.
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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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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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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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