Grief is a species of idleness.
SAMUEL JOHNSONThe next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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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.
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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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A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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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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Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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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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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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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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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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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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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
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Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
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