Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
SAMUEL JOHNSONKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.
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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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Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
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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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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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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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The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
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None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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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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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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A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
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From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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