The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSONPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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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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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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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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When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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