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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Oneself People Talk Well
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Health Moral Preserve Religious Social Virtue
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Concentration Death Focus Man Mindset Wonderful
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Books Choice Friendship
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Bed Coward Night Sleep Thinking
From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

End God Greatness Guide Motivational Original Spring
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Goodness Man Talk Wife
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Coward Patriot Refuge
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Man Praise Rich Virtue Wealth Wisdom World
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Enjoyment Happiness Travel Woman
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Exam Fake Invitation Truth
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Accident Hands Herself Man Mistake Quiet Reach Society Stand
Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Born Children Grief One Liner Wasted Time
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Deep Hesitation Myself Sharp Silence Weapon Word Yourself
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.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Better Company Enough Food Man Prison Room
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Courage Greatness Himself Man Preserve Security Virtue

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