The future is purchased by the present.
SAMUEL JOHNSONKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
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What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
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Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.
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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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My dear friend, clear your mind of can’t.
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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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Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don’t think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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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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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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It very seldom happens to a man that his business is his pleasure.
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